Meaning of double danda | Babel Free

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A punctuation mark (॥) used in many Indic scripts, denoting the end of a paragraph or verse of poetry.

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“The characters belong⟳ to the Siddhamātṛkā alphabet and may be assigned to the eighth century A.D. on grounds of palaeography. [...] The inscription begins with the siddham symbol and ends with a double⟳ daṇḍa.”

“Generally a single daṇḍa is found at the end⟳ of the first half and a double⟳ daṇḍa at the end⟳ of the second half of a verse as well as after an invocation. But instances of indiscriminate employment of the marks of punctuation are also too numerous to be enumerated exhaustively.”

“In Sanskrit prose, the only punctuation marks are a single daṇḍa, used to mark⟳ the end⟳ of a sentence, and a double⟳ daṇḍa, used to mark⟳ the end⟳ of a paragraph.”

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