Danda

In the Devanāgarī script, the danda (दंड, lit. 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 and at 0xEA in ISCII.

In Devanāgarī the danda marks the end of a sentence or period, a function which it shares with the full stop (period) in many written languages based on the Latin, Cyrillic, or Greek alphabets.

The word danda is also a colloquialism for penis (c.f. lingam).

Danda as spiritual attribute

In the Varnashrama System or Dharma of Sanatana Dharma, the danda is a spiritual attribute and axis mundi of certain deities such as Bṛhaspati, and holy people such as sadhu carry the danda as an austerity and marker of their station as a mendicant renunciate or sannyasin.

See also

• Staff (stick)
• Period
• Walking stick
• Pāṇini

References

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