The daṇḍa marks the end of a sentence or line, comparable to a full stop (period) as commonly used in the Latin alphabet, and is used together with Western punctuation in Hindi and Nepali.
[2] No distinct punctuation is used to mark questions or exclamations, which must be inferred from other aspects of the sentence.
In prose, the double daṇḍa is used to mark the end of a paragraph, a story, or section.
The Unicode standard recommends using this character also in other Indic scripts, like Bengali, Telugu, Oriya, and others.
Danda and similar characters are encoded separately for some scripts in which its appearance or use is significantly different from the Devanagari one.