Danda (punctuation marks)

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The Danda ( Sanskrit daṇḍa 'stick') is a punctuation mark of the Devanagari script and other scripts of the Indian group of scripts , for example Bengali (there referred to as i dari ), Gurmukhi , Gujarati , Oriya , Telugu , Kannada and Malayalam . It marks the end of the sentence , analogous to the point in the Latin writing system . It consists of a vertical line and is similar to the vertical line of the ASCII character set. In Unicode , it is coded as U + 0964 devanagari danda in the Devanagari block, where it is explicitly identified as being used for other scripts in the Indian group of scripts.

The same applies to the double danda (Unicode: U + 0965 devanagari double danda ), which marks the end of a paragraph as a double vertical line .

In verse poetry , the danda marks the end of a half-verse (Sanskrit pāda ) and the double danda the end of a verse .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Unicode Block: Devanagari. (PDF) Unicode Consortium, accessed on October 19, 2015 (English): "These punctuation marks are for common use for the scripts of India despite being named" DEVANAGARI ". They also occur as abbreviation signs in some South Indian script. "
  2. ↑ a b Ulrich Stiehl: Sanskrit Compendium . 2nd edition Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-7785-2889-0 , p. 301