"double danda" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From double + danda.",
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          "ref": "1971, Dineshchandra Sircar, Studies in the Religious Life of Ancient and Medieval India, Motilal Banarsidass Publications, page 140",
          "text": "The characters belong to the Siddhamātṛkā alphabet and may be assigned to the eighth century A.D. on grounds of palaeography. [...] The inscription begins with the siddham symbol and ends with a double daṇḍa.",
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          "text": "Generally a single daṇḍa is found at the end of the first half and a double daṇḍa at the end of the second half of a verse as well as after an invocation. But instances of indiscriminate employment of the marks of punctuation are also too numerous to be enumerated exhaustively.",
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          "text": "In Sanskrit prose, the only punctuation marks are a single daṇḍa, used to mark the end of a sentence, and a double daṇḍa, used to mark the end of a paragraph.",
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