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<div>{{Short description|Punctuation mark in Indic scripts}}<br />
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In [[Indic scripts]], the '''daṇḍa''' ([[Sanskrit]]: दण्ड ''{{IAST|daṇḍa}}'' "stick"){{efn|Other terms used in various languages for variants of daṇḍa include ''kaan'' (or ''khan''), ''shad'' (or ''shya''), ''carik siki'' (doubled to ''carik pareren''), ''ta-rol'', ''mucaad'', [[Javanese script#Punctuation|''pada lingsa'']] (doubled to ''pada lungsi'') and ''section (mark)''.<ref name="utn33"/>}} is a [[punctuation]] mark.<ref name=Ruppel>{{cite book<br />
| last = A.M.<br />
| first = Ruppel<br />
| title = The Cambridge Introduction to Sanskrit<br />
| publisher = Cambridge University Press<br />
| date = 2017<br />
| location = New York<br />
| pages = 33<br />
| language = English<br />
| isbn = 978-1107088283<br />
}}</ref> The [[glyph]] consists of a single vertical stroke. <br />
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== Use ==<br />
The daṇḍa marks the end of a sentence or line, comparable to a [[full stop]] (period) as commonly used in the [[Latin alphabet]], and is used together with Western punctuation in most modern [[Languages of India|Indic]] languages.{{cn|date=November 2019}}<br />
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The daṇḍa and double daṇḍa are the only punctuation used in Sanskrit texts.<ref name=Ruppel/> No distinct punctuation is used to mark questions or exclamations, which must be inferred from other aspects of the sentence.<ref name=Ruppel/> <br />
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In metrical texts, a double daṇḍa is used to delimit verses, and a single daṇḍa to delimit a [[pada (foot)|pada]], line, or semi-verse. In prose, the double daṇḍa is used to mark the end of a paragraph, a story, or section.<ref name=Ruppel/><br />
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== Computer encoding ==<br />
The [[Devanagari]] character can be found at [[character encoding|code point]] U+0964 ({{script|Deva|।}}) in [[Unicode]]. The "double daṇḍa" is at U+0965 ({{script|Deva|॥}}). The Unicode standard recommends using this character also in other [[Indic scripts]], like Bengali, Telugu, Oriya, and others.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode13.0.0/UnicodeStandard-13.0.pdf|title=The Unicode® Standard Version 13.0 – Core Specification|publisher=The Unicode Consortium|year=2020|isbn=978-1-936213-26-9|location=Mountain View, CA|pages=278|access-date=2020-11-26|archive-date=2020-10-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201005161924/https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode13.0.0/UnicodeStandard-13.0.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> Encoding it separately for every Indic script was proposed,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Public Review Issue #59|url=https://www.unicode.org/review/pr-59.html|access-date=2020-11-26|website=www.unicode.org|archive-date=2019-12-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191230030228/http://unicode.org/review/pr-59.html|url-status=live}}</ref> but as of 2020, this proposal has not been implemented.<br />
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Danda and similar characters are encoded separately for some scripts in which its appearance or use is significantly different from the Devangari one.<ref name="utn33">{{Cite web|title=UTN #33: Dandas and More Dandas|url=https://www.unicode.org/notes/tn33/|access-date=2020-11-26|website=www.unicode.org|archive-date=2019-12-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191229162004/http://www.unicode.org/notes/tn33/|url-status=live}}</ref><br />
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[[ISCII]] encodes daṇḍa at 0xEA.<br />
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==See also==<br />
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==Footnotes==<br />
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==References==<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* {{wiktionary-inline|danda}}<br />
* {{wiktionary-inline|दण्ड}}<br />
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