Daṇḍa
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Daïa (fl. 11th century) is a Berber saint. She is venerated by the Mozabites of the M'zab region (in present-day Algeria). She is reputed to have lived in a cave (ghār) near Wadi Mzab in the M'zab valley. Kharijite Muslims later flocked to the valley and built the town of Ghardaïa to escape persecution from the Fatimids in the north.
In Indic scripts, the daṇḍa (Sanskrit: दण्ड "stick") is a punctuation mark. The grapheme consists of a single vertical stroke.
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, , the latin character-set equivalent of the double daṇḍa
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