• Virama (Sanskrit: विराम/हलन्त, romanized: virāma/halanta ्) is a Sanskrit phonological concept to suppress the inherent vowel that otherwise occurs with...
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  • made, there were two other viramas used simultaneously, the vertical bar virama ഻ and circular virama ഼. The vertical bar virama was used exclusively for...
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    formation (Virama and similar diacritics) Devanagari Sign Virama (U+094D) Bengali Sign Virama (U+09CD) Gurmukhi Sign Virama (U+0A4D) Gujarati Sign Virama (U+0ACD)...
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  • a Vaishnava shrine than Virama did. This annoyed Virama, who tortured the bania. As a punishment, Viradhavala banished Virama to a place named Viramagrama...
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  • = 𑄇 kā + 𑄳 VIRAMA + 𑄇 kā 𑄇𑄳𑄑 kṭā = 𑄇 kā + 𑄳 VIRAMA + 𑄑 ṭā 𑄇𑄳𑄖 ktā = 𑄇 kā + 𑄳 VIRAMA + 𑄖 tā 𑄇𑄳𑄟 kmā = 𑄇 kā + 𑄳 VIRAMA + 𑄟 mā 𑄇𑄳𑄌...
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  • (Tagalog: Lumang Tagalog; Baybayin: pre-virama: ᜎᜓᜋ ᜆᜄᜎᜓ, post-virama [krus kudlit]: ᜎᜓᜋᜅ᜔ ᜆᜄᜎᜓᜄ᜔; post-virama [pamudpod]: ᜎᜓᜋᜅ᜴ ᜆᜄᜎᜓᜄ᜴), is the earliest...
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  • called a sabat or krus, a virama removes a consonant's inherent a vowel, making it an independent consonant. The krus-kudlít virama was added to the original...
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    Unicode Consortium. UTC L2/04-279, Public Review Issue #37. "13.2. Sinhala (§ Virama (al-lakuna) and Consonant Forms)". The Unicode Standard, Core Specification...
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  • Khan after a 4-month long siege. The reign of Virama saw the rise of Jain scholars in Gwalior. Virama's minister Kusharaja encouraged the Kayastha poet...
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    Constantine Joseph Beschi (8 November 1680 – 4 February 1747), also known under his Tamil name of Vīramāmunivar, was an Italian Jesuit priest, missionary...
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  • a combination of diacritic marks and consonant letters marked with the virama character ် which suppresses the inherent vowel of the consonant letter...
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  • ue อึ. อฺ Because the Thai script is an abugida, a symbol (equivalent to virāma in devanagari) needs to be added to indicate that the implied vowel is not...
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    The maharlika (Baybayin pre-virama: ᜋᜑᜎᜒᜃ meaning freeman or freedman) were the feudal warrior class in ancient Tagalog society in Luzon, the Philippines...
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    (र्‍) is produced in Unicode by the sequence [ra र ] + [virāma ्] + [ZWJ] and [rra ऱ ]+ [virāma ्] + [ZWJ]. In Marathi, when 'र' is the first consonant...
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    of a vowel is marked with a virāma ⟨◌𑍍⟩, for example, ⟨𑌕⟩ ka plus ⟨◌𑍍⟩ creates an isolated consonant ⟨𑌕𑍍⟩ k. The virama has no independent form because...
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  • Karaang Binisayâ, Binisayâ sa Katuigan sa Katsilà; Badlit: pre-virama: ᜃᜇᜀ ᜅ ᜊᜒᜈᜒᜐᜌ, post-virama: ᜃᜇᜀᜈ᜴ ᜅ ᜊᜒᜈᜒᜐᜌ) was a form of the Cebuano language spoken...
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    The Lantaka (Baybayin: pre virama: ᜎᜆᜃ: post virama: ᜎᜈ᜔ᜆᜃ) also known as rentaka (in Malay, jawi script: رنتاک) was a type of bronze portable cannon or...
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    (without a vowel). Many Indic scripts have a similar sign, generically called virama, but the Tamil script is somewhat different in that it nearly always uses...
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    alphabet: Here the syllable bim is written ba-ma-i-(virama). That is, the vowel diacritic and virama are both written after the consonants for the whole...
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    default /a/ vowel from TA; the large curl to the upper right is the Kawi virama, which indicates the default /a/ vowel on NA is not pronounced. The three...
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    virama, or "killer stroke" that removes the inherent vowel, leaving an isolated consonant. When transcribing Sanskrit or Tibetan, a different virama,...
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    are written by adding to the character. A mark, known in Sanskrit as a virama/halanta/hasanta, can be used to indicate the absence of an inherent vowel...
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    consonant, or at the end of a syllable), a virama (vowel-canceling) prefix is used: ⠈⠅ (virama-K) is क k, and ⠈⠹ (virama-TH) is थ th. However, unlike in print...
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  • diacritics), one of which (/a/) is inherent in all consonants, 31 consonants, a virama to cancel the inherent vowel, and a vowel carrier to be used in combination...
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    The virama is a "killer stroke" that suppresses any consonant's inherent vowel, leaving an isolated consonant, so, for example, ⟨ꤰ⟩, ka plus a virama ⟨꥓⟩...
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    Installation of Bhanu Virama as King of Kerala by Parashurama...
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    cross or virama – shown in the Doctrina Cristiana of 1621, one of the earliest surviving Ilokano publications. Before the addition of the virama, writers...
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  • the furious Nahara". Virama can be identified with the Vaghela prince Virama-deva, who was married to Chachigadeva's sister. Virama and his brother Visala-deva...
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  • Weltevreden en Ed. Cuypers te Amsterdam becomes PN Virama Karya. The company later turned into PT Virama Karya (Persero). Indonesian Electrical and Mechanical...
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    passages to his brother Virama, his minister Jaja, and the rebel Mongol leader Muhammad Shah, but all of them refused to desert him. Virama died fighting by...
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