Siddhaṃ script

Siddhaṃ, also known in its later evolved form as Siddhamātṛkā, is the name of a script used for writing Sanskrit from ca 600-1200. It is descended from the Brahmi script via the Gupta script, which gave rise to Tirhuta, the Assamese alphabet, the Bengali alphabet and the Tibetan alphabet. There is some confusion over the spelling: Siddhāṃ and Siddhaṃ are both common, though Siddhaṃ is preferred as "correct". The script is a refinement of the script used during the Gupta Empire. The name arose from the practice of writing the word Siddhaṃ, or Siddhaṃ astu (may there be perfection) at the head of documents.

The word Siddhaṃ means "accomplished" or "perfected" in Sanskrit. Other names for the script include bonji (Japanese: 梵字) and Chinese: 悉曇文字; pinyin: Xītán wénzi.

Siddhaṃ is an abugida rather than an alphabet because each character indicates a syllable, but it does not include every possible syllable. If no other mark occurs, the short 'a' is assumed. Diacritic marks indicate the other vowels, anusvara, and visarga. A virama can be used to indicate that the letter stands alone with no vowel, which sometimes happens at the end of Sanskrit words.

Siddham (film)

Siddham (English: Ready) is a 2009 Telugu action film, produced by Kiran Kumar Koneru on Shreya Productions banner, directed by J. D. Chakravarthy. The film stars Jagapati Babu, Sindhu Menon in lead roles and music composed by Amar Mohile . The film recorded as Average at box office. This film plot is similar to Hindi film Ab Tak Chhappan, but not a remake

Plot

Dayanand alias Daya (Jagapathi Babu) is an encounter specialist in Hyderabad Task Force who does his job with perfection and is not concerned about killing criminals for the sake of the society. His assistants Akhil (Dr.Bharath Reddy), Saleem (Kota Prasad) and Francis (Narsing Yadav) guide him in monitoring the mafia gang's plans and executing them at the right time. Daya is honest and right on his job supported by Commissioner Guru Narayan (Kota Srinivasa Rao) which attains him fame in the media.

When the Commissioner retires from duty, Sub inspector Saleem jealous of Daya's fame and name in the department and media hatches treacherous plans accompanied with the new Commissioner Sivalinga Prasad (Radha Ravi) who's in association with the mafia don Bilal (Mukul Dev). The trio imposes various hurdles in Dayanand's path to justice and murders his wife Gauri (Sindhu Menon) for vengeance. But, a determined Dayanand continues with his mission, foiling the plans of Sivalinga Prasad and Bilal to bring justice in the end.

Siddham (Unicode block)

Siddham is a Unicode block containing characters for the historical, Brahmi-derived Siddham script used for writing Sanskrit during the period ca 600-1200 CE.

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