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The high tone, usually left unmarked.
Also known as: Vedic acute accent, Raised tone
The Vedic accent on a syllable spoken at the raised pitch, which the commonest written system marks by not marking it.
Marks the syllable carrying the raised pitch in Vedic recitation.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
The notation is subtractive, which is its most striking property: in the Rigveda system the udātta is written by leaving the syllable bare, and it is the anudātta stroke below the preceding syllable and the svarita stroke above the following one that locate it. A reader who does not know the convention sees marks on the wrong syllables.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
A bare syllable carrying no stroke of its own, recognised by the horizontal stroke beneath the syllable before it and the upright stroke above the syllable after it.