The Authentic Orthography
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Why bodhisattva.com is the correct form
बोधिसत्त्व
The name in its original Devanagari form. बोधिसत्त्व → Bodhisattva. Sanskrit Bodhisattva is written in Devanagari as बोधिसत्त्व · IAST transliteration maps each Devanagari vowel and consonant to a Latin equivalent · Macrons mark long vowels (ā, ī, ū); dots beneath consonants mark retroflex articulation (ṭ, ḍ, ṇ, ṣ)
BODDHISATTVA
Stripped of its identity, the name was reduced to plain Latin letters. The original orthography — stress, length, breathing — was erased by systems that only understand A-Z.
Bodhisattva
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
bodhisattva.com → bodhisattva.com
The non-ASCII characters in Bodhisattva are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Bodhisattva.
How boddhisattva becomes Bodhisattva
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | b | → | B | Same | Same, capitalized |
| 02 | o | → | o | Same | Same |
| 03 | d | → | d | Same | Same |
| 04 | d | → | h | Special | Special character |
| 05 | h | → | i | Special | Special character |
| 06 | i | → | s | Special | Special character |
| 07 | s | → | a | Special | Special character |
| 08 | a | → | t | Special | Special character |
| 09 | t | → | t | Same | Same |
| 10 | t | → | v | Special | Special character |
| 11 | v | → | a | Special | Special character |
| 12 | a | → | Drop | Dropped |
Why Bodhisattva is classified as Tier-2 Basic
The Ancient form बोधिसत्त्व preserves neither stress nor length in this Unicode restoration. This makes it a single-tier Tier-2 Basic name — still a scholarly step above plain ASCII, but without the distinctive phonetic features that define higher tiers.
See how Bodhisattva behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
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