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A flower closing a chapter.
Also known as: Colophon flower, Chapter-end ornament
The ornamental mark closing a chapter or section of a Sanskrit manuscript, before the colophon statement.
Closes a chapter or section, introducing the formulaic statement naming what has ended.
Contexts: History
Marks structure ornamentally rather than typographically, which is why a manuscript's divisions are visible at arm's length before a word of it is read.
Contexts: History
A small rosette of curved petal-like strokes around a centre, sometimes drawn instead as an interlaced knot, set between the closing verse bars and the line naming the chapter.