double danda
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.79 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A punctuation mark (॥) used in many Indic scripts, denoting the end of a paragraph or verse of poetry.
Example Sentences
- "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."