Khojki double danda

It closes prose and separates verse units.

Use it at the end of Khojki prose or verse. The single Khojki mark can also end a sentence; the double form additionally separates verse sections. Printed Khojki may use Latin punctuation too, so this is a script-specific boundary mark rather than a universal full stop.

Around a verse number, Khojki word separators commonly sit on both sides. That layout organizes the verse; it does not emphasize the number.

Where did Khojki develop?

It grew from merchant writing into a script for Ismaili religious literature.

Khojki grew in Sindh from the Landa/Lohanaki merchant-script tradition: writing systems used for business records. It was adapted for religious literature of the Nizari Ismaili community, including ginans—devotional poems and teachings. A popular tradition credits Pir Sadruddin with introducing or spreading Khojki; the script developed over time rather than as one person's invention.

Accounts differ on the earliest manuscript evidence: one places Khojki writing in the 16th century; another calls a manuscript dated 1737 the earliest written evidence known to its author. Khojki later appears in printed books and diaspora ceremonies. Gurmukhi is a separate Landa-derived liturgical script; both scripts belong to the wider Brahmi-derived writing tradition.