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The marks of Marathi administration.
Also known as: Modi script marks
The punctuation of the Modī script used for Marathi record-keeping until the twentieth century.
Divide text in Modī documents and administrative records.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
The script was built for speed in revenue and administrative writing, and its punctuation is correspondingly minimal — the notation reflects the job rather than the language.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Displaced by Devanagari for Marathi in the twentieth century, leaving several centuries of Maratha administrative archive readable only by specialists.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
A sparse set of dividers in a cursive, headstroke-continuous hand designed to be written without lifting the pen.