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Avagraha ( ऽ, ) is a symbol used to indicate prodelision of an अ () 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 शिवोऽहम् (), which is a sandhi of (शिवः + अहम्) ‘I am Shiva’. The avagraha is also used for prolonging vowel sounds in some languages, for example Hindi माँऽऽऽ! for ‘Mā̃ā̃ā̃ā̃!’ when calling to one's mother, or when transliterating foreign words in instant messaging: for example, 'cool' can be transliterated as कूऽल. This symbol is more frequently used in the Eastern Hindi and Bihari languages.
In the case of Hindi, the character is also sometimes used as a symbol to denote long or heavy syllables, in Sanskrit prosody. For example, the syllables in the word छंदः ‘metre’ (in nominative) can be denoted as "ऽऽ", meaning two long syllables. (Cf. other notations in entry "Systems of scansion".)
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| Devanagari sign avagraha | ||
| Combining Devanagari sign avagraha | ||
| Devanagari sign chandrabindu avagraha | ||
| Bengali alphabet sign avagraha | ||
| Gujarati sign avagraha | ||
| Odia alphabet sign avagraha | ||
| Telugu alphabet sign avagraha | ||
| Kannada alphabet sign avagraha | ||
| ᤹ | U+1939 | Limbu script sign mukphreng |
| Malayalam sign avagraha | ||
| Sundanese sign avagraha | ||
| Tirhuta alphabet sign avagraha | ||
| Tibetan script sign paluta | ||
| Khmer script sign avakraha | ||
| Mongolian script Galik alphabet sign baluda |
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