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A mark showing an elided initial vowel.
Also known as: Elision mark Brahmic, Sanskrit apostrophe
In Sanskrit written in Brahmic scripts the avagraha marks an initial vowel that has been elided where two words run together, the equivalent of an apostrophe in an English contraction.
Marks an initial vowel elided where two words combine.
Contexts: Language and transcription
Belongs chiefly to Sanskrit text rather than to the modern languages the same scripts write.
Contexts: Language and transcription
A curved stroke resembling a small letter s written on the line between the two words it joins.