Danda

In the Devanāgarī script, the danda दण्ड (Sanskrit daṇḍa "stick") is a punctuation character. The glyph consists of a single vertical stroke. The character can be found at code point U+0964 (।) in Unicode. The "double danda" is at U+0965 (॥). ISCII encodes danda at 0xEA.

The danda marks the end of a sentence or period, comparable to a full stop (period) as commonly used in the Latin alphabet. In metrical texts, a double danda is used to delimit verses, and a single danda to delimit a pada or semi-verse.

Danda in Hinduism and Buddhism is a weapon which means punishment rod.

The danda (with the same Unicode encoding) has also been used as a full stop in the scripts of several other Indic languages, including Bengali (pronounced as দাঁড়ি / dari), Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Hindi, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam. However, Western punctuation has largely replaced it in contemporary orthography.

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