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A single vertical stroke ending a sentence.
Also known as: Purna viram, Devanagari full stop, Double danda, Vertical line at the end of a sentence
The danda is a vertical stroke marking the end of a sentence or a verse line, filling the role of a full stop across the Indic scripts. A doubled danda closes a verse or paragraph, so the mark scales by repetition rather than by a second character.
Denotes the end of a sentence or a metrical line in Devanagari and other Indic scripts.
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Doubles to mark the end of a verse, stanza or paragraph, so the punctuation scales by repetition rather than by a distinct mark.
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Has been increasingly replaced by the Latin full stop in modern Hindi prose, while remaining standard in verse and formal text.
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A single plain vertical stroke of letter height, standing at the end of a line of Devanagari text.