visarga
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In Sanskrit phonology, visarga () is the name of the voiceless glottal fricative, written in Devanagari as . It was also called, equivalently, '' by earlier grammarians. The word visarga'' () literally means "sending forth, discharge".
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In Sanskrit phonology, visarga () is the name of the voiceless glottal fricative, written in Devanagari as . It was also called, equivalently, '' by earlier grammarians. The word visarga () literally means "sending forth, discharge".
Visarga is an allophone of and in pausa (at the end of an utterance). Since is a common inflectional suffix (of nominative singular, second person singular, etc.), visarga appears frequently in Sanskrit texts. In the traditional order of Sanskrit sounds, visarga and anusvāra appear between vowels and stop consonants.