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Chandrabindu (IAST: candrabindu, lit. ' moon dot ' in Sanskrit) is a diacritic sign with the form of a dot inside the lower half of a circle. It is used in the Devanagari (ँ), Bengali-Assamese (ঁ), Gujarati (ઁ), Odia (ଁ), Tamil ( 𑌁 Extension used from Grantha), Telugu (ఁ), Kannada ( ಁ), Malayalam ( ഁ), Sinhala ( ඁ), Javanese ( ꦀ) and other scripts.
Chandrabindu – Diacritic mark typically denoting nazalization, in Indian abugidas; Interpunct – Typographical symbol, variously used as word delimiter, currency decimal delimiter, etc. (·) Tittle – Diacritical mark, the dot of the letters i and j; Two dots (diacritic) – Diacritic that consists of two dots placed over a letter
Scholars commonly use IAST in publications that cite textual material in Sanskrit, Pāḷi and other classical Indian languages. IAST is also used for major e-text repositories such as SARIT, Muktabodha, GRETIL, and sanskritdocuments.org.
Its symbol is the moon, which supports the growth of vegetation. Krishna said in the Bhagavad Gita XV/13, "Becoming the nectarine moon I nourish all plants". Its divinity is Shiva , who is portrayed with the crescent moon in his hair.
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chandrabindu: marks the nasalization of a vowel 𑓀 anusvara: marks nasalization ᓁ visarga: marks the sound [h], which is an allophone of [r] and [s] in pausa (at the end of an utterance) ᓂ virama: used to suppress the inherent vowel ᓃ nukta: used to create new consonant signs 𑓄 avagraha: used to indicate ...
Newari scripts (Nepal Lipi: 𑐣𑐾𑐥𑐵𑐮 𑐁𑐏𑐮, Devanagari: नेपाल आखल) are a family of alphabetic writing systems employed historically in Nepal Mandala by the indigenous Newar people for primarily writing Nepal Bhasa.
Hindu woman in Kullu, Himachal Pradesh wearing a bindi. A bindi (from Sanskrit bindú meaning "point, drop, dot or small particle") [1] [2] is a coloured dot or, in modern times, a sticker worn on the centre of the forehead, originally by Hindus, Jains and Buddhists from the Indian subcontinent.