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One ring instead of two.
Also known as: Half visarga
The Vedic mark written as a single small circle, standing for a visarga reduced to half its written form.
Writes a reduced or half visarga in Vedic texts.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Used in some traditions as a cover term for the jihvāmūlīya and upadhmānīya together, which is why a text using the term needs reading against its own conventions rather than against a general definition.
The term covers different marks in different editorial traditions.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
A single small ring on the line, where a full visarga would show two stacked rings.