Avagraha
Template:Infobox diacritic Avagraha (Script error: No such module "Lang"., Template:Ipa) is a symbol used to indicate prodelision of an Script error: No such module "Lang". (Script error: No such module "lang".) in many Indian languages like Sanskrit as shown below. It is usually transliterated with an apostrophe in Roman script and, in case of Devanagari, as in the Sanskrit philosophical expression Script error: No such module "Lang". Script error: No such module "lang". (Script error: No such module "lang".), which is a sandhi of (Script error: No such module "Lang". + Script error: No such module "Lang".) ‘I am Shiva’. The avagraha is also used for prolonging vowel sounds in some languages, for example Hindi Script error: No such module "Lang". for ‘Mā̃ā̃ā̃ā̃!’ when calling to one's mother, or when transliterating foreign words in instant messaging: for example, 'cool' can be transliterated as Script error: No such module "Lang".. Script error: No such module "Unsubst". This symbol is more frequently used in the Bhojpuri langauge.
In the case of Hindi, the character is also sometimes used as a symbol to denote long or heavy syllables, in metrical poetry. For example, the syllables in the word Script error: No such module "Lang". Script error: No such module "lang". ‘metre’ (in nominative) can be denoted as "Script error: No such module "Lang".", meaning two long syllables. (Cf. other notations in entry "Systems of scansion".)
Avagraha in Unicode
The avagraha symbol is encoded at several Unicode points, for various Brahmic scripts that use it.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
| Character | Unicode character number | Full Unicode name |
|---|---|---|
| ऽ | U+093D | Devanagari sign avagraha |
| ꣱ | U+A8F1 | Combining Devanagari sign avagraha |
| ꣷ | U+A8F7 | Devanagari sign candrabindu avagraha |
| ঽ | U+09BD | Bengali sign avagraha |
| ઽ | U+0ABD | Gujarati sign avagraha |
| ଽ | U+0B3D | Odia sign avagraha |
| ఽ | U+0C3D | Telugu sign avagraha |
| ಽ | U+0CBD | Kannada sign avagraha |
| ᤹ | U+1939 | Limbu sign mukphreng |
| ഽ | U+0D3D | Malayalam sign avagraha |
| ᮺ | U+1BBA | Sundanese sign avagraha |
| 𑓄 | U+114C4 | Tirhuta sign avagraha |
| ྅ | U+0F85 | Tibetan sign paluta |
| ៜ | U+17DC | Khmer sign avakraha |
| ᢅ | U+1885 | Mongolian Galik sign baluda |
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