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A breath mark in recitation.
Also known as: Vedic breath mark
The Vedic mark showing where the reciter takes breath within a passage.
Marks the point at which the reciter breathes.
Contexts: Language and transcription, Religion, Music
The direct Indic counterpart to the pausal marks of Qur'anic recitation and to the breath mark of Western musical notation: three unrelated traditions that each found it necessary to write down where to stop.
Contexts: Language and transcription, Religion, Music
A small mark placed between syllables at the point where breath is taken.