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A doubled upright stroke.
Also known as: Long svarita, Independent svarita
The Vedic mark for a svarita held over a long syllable, written with two vertical strokes instead of one.
Marks a falling tone carried over a long or independent syllable.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Distinguishes the svarita that arises from contraction — where an underlying udātta has been absorbed — from the ordinary dependent svarita, a distinction that matters in metrical analysis.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Two short vertical strokes side by side above the syllable, distinguished from the single svarita stroke by number rather than by length.