m. n. the Svarita accent (a kind of mixed tone, produced by a combination of high and low tone, and therefore named in [Pāṇ. i, 2, 31] sam-āhāra, the high and low tones being called ud-ātta, ‘raised’ or ‘acute’, and an-udātta, ‘low’ or ‘grave’; the Sv° corresponds to the Greek circumflex and is of four kinds, viz. kṣaipra [as in vy-ā́pta for ví-āpta], jātya [as in kvà for kúa], praśliṣṭa [as in divī́va for diví iva], or abhinihita [as in té 'bruvan for té abruvan]; it is marked in [RV.] by a small upright stroke above a syllable; and when produced by an udātta immediately preceding is sometimes called ‘a dependent Svarita’, and, when it properly belongs to a word, an ‘independent Svarita’), [ĀśvŚr.]; [Prāt.]; [Pāṇ.]