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In the Devanagari
Devanagari

, or 'Nagari', is an abugida alphabet of India and Nepal. It is written from left to right, lacks distinct letter cases, and is recognizable by a distinctive horizontal line running along the tops of the letters that links them together....
 script
Writing system

A writing system is a type of symbolic system used to represent elements or statements expressible in language....
, the danda (Sanskrit
Sanskrit

Sanskrit is a historical Indo-Aryan language, one of the liturgical languages of Hinduism and Buddhism, and one of the 22 official languages of India....
  "stick") is a punctuation
Punctuation

Punctuation is everything in written language other than the actual letters or numbers, including punctuation marks , Interword separation and indentation....
 character
Character (computing)

In computer and machine-based telecommunications terminology, a character is a unit of information that roughly corresponds to a grapheme, grapheme-like unit, or symbol, such as in an alphabet or syllabary in the written language form of a natural language....
. The glyph
Glyph

A glyph is an element of writing. Two or more glyphs representing the same symbol, whether interchangeable or context-dependent, are called allographs; the abstract unit they are variants of is called a grapheme or character ....
 consists of a single vertical stroke. The character can be found at code point
Character encoding

A character encoding system consists of a code that pairs a sequence of character from a given character set with something else, such as a sequence of natural numbers, octet or electrical pulses, in order to facilitate the transmission of data through telecommunication networks and/or Computer data storage of Character in compute...
 U+0964 in Unicode
Unicode

Unicode is a computing industry standard allowing computers to consistently represent and manipulate Character expressed in most of the world's writing systems....
. The "double danda" is at U+0965 . ISCII
ISCII

Indian Script Code for Information Interchange is a coding scheme for representing various writing systems of India. It encodes the main Indic scripts and a Roman transliteration....
 encodes danda at 0xEA.

The danda marks the end of a sentence or period, comparable to a full stop
Full stop

A full stop or period , is the punctuation mark commonly placed at the end of several different types of Sentence s in English language and many other languages....
 (period) as commonly used in the Latin alphabet
Latin alphabet

The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world today. It evolved from the western variety of the Greek alphabet called the Cumae alphabet, and was initially developed by the Ancient Romes to write the Latin....
. In metrical texts, a double danda is used to delimit verses, and a single danda to delimit a pada
Pada

Pada may refer to:* Pada , the foot* Sri Pada, or Adam's Peak, a mountain in Sri Lanka* Pada River, see List of rivers of Estonia...
 or semi-verse.

word literally means "stick, staff, rod, pole, cudgel, club", and is also used in the sense of "penis", "tusk", "trunk", "stalk, stem", "handle" etc. As a unit of length, it corresponds to four hastas "hands".






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In the Devanagari
Devanagari

, or 'Nagari', is an abugida alphabet of India and Nepal. It is written from left to right, lacks distinct letter cases, and is recognizable by a distinctive horizontal line running along the tops of the letters that links them together....
 script
Writing system

A writing system is a type of symbolic system used to represent elements or statements expressible in language....
, the danda (Sanskrit
Sanskrit

Sanskrit is a historical Indo-Aryan language, one of the liturgical languages of Hinduism and Buddhism, and one of the 22 official languages of India....
  "stick") is a punctuation
Punctuation

Punctuation is everything in written language other than the actual letters or numbers, including punctuation marks , Interword separation and indentation....
 character
Character (computing)

In computer and machine-based telecommunications terminology, a character is a unit of information that roughly corresponds to a grapheme, grapheme-like unit, or symbol, such as in an alphabet or syllabary in the written language form of a natural language....
. The glyph
Glyph

A glyph is an element of writing. Two or more glyphs representing the same symbol, whether interchangeable or context-dependent, are called allographs; the abstract unit they are variants of is called a grapheme or character ....
 consists of a single vertical stroke. The character can be found at code point
Character encoding

A character encoding system consists of a code that pairs a sequence of character from a given character set with something else, such as a sequence of natural numbers, octet or electrical pulses, in order to facilitate the transmission of data through telecommunication networks and/or Computer data storage of Character in compute...
 U+0964 in Unicode
Unicode

Unicode is a computing industry standard allowing computers to consistently represent and manipulate Character expressed in most of the world's writing systems....
. The "double danda" is at U+0965 . ISCII
ISCII

Indian Script Code for Information Interchange is a coding scheme for representing various writing systems of India. It encodes the main Indic scripts and a Roman transliteration....
 encodes danda at 0xEA.

The danda marks the end of a sentence or period, comparable to a full stop
Full stop

A full stop or period , is the punctuation mark commonly placed at the end of several different types of Sentence s in English language and many other languages....
 (period) as commonly used in the Latin alphabet
Latin alphabet

The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world today. It evolved from the western variety of the Greek alphabet called the Cumae alphabet, and was initially developed by the Ancient Romes to write the Latin....
. In metrical texts, a double danda is used to delimit verses, and a single danda to delimit a pada
Pada

Pada may refer to:* Pada , the foot* Sri Pada, or Adam's Peak, a mountain in Sri Lanka* Pada River, see List of rivers of Estonia...
 or semi-verse.

Etymology

The word literally means "stick, staff, rod, pole, cudgel, club", and is also used in the sense of "penis", "tusk", "trunk", "stalk, stem", "handle" etc. As a unit of length, it corresponds to four hastas "hands". The term can also refer to a sceptre
Sceptre

A sceptre or scepter is a symbolic ornamental Staff held by a ruling monarch, a prominent item of royal regalia. While some sceptres resemble a Ceremonial mace, their use is quite different....
 as a sybol of power and sovereignty, and expresses "power over" in compounds, also on the sense of judicial authority and punishment (chastisement, imprisonment, etc.) and also including the sense "control, restraint" as in , , , etc.

See also

  • Staff (stick)
    Staff (stick)

    A staff is a large, thick stick or stick-shaped object used to help with walking, as a status symbol, as a component of traditional cooper , or as a weapon....
  • Period
    Full stop

    A full stop or period , is the punctuation mark commonly placed at the end of several different types of Sentence s in English language and many other languages....
  • Walking stick
    Walking stick

    A walking stick is a device used by many people to facilitate balancing whilst walking. It may be used as a defensive or offensive weapon, and may conceal a knife or sword as in a swordstick....
  • Pa?ini
    Pa?ini

    was an Iron Age India Sanskrit grammarian from Pushkalavati, Gandhara .He is known for his Vyakarana, particularly for his formulation of the 3,959 rules of Sanskrit Morphology in the grammar known as 'Ashtadhyayi' , the foundational text of the grammatical branch of the Vedanga, the auxiliary scholarly disciplines of historical Ved...