Scholarly Name Reference
‘the inaccessible or terrific goddess’, N. of the daughter of Himavat and wife of Śiva (also called Umā, Pārvatī &c., and mother of Kārttikeya and Gaṇeśa cf. pUjA), TĀr. x, 2
Scholarly reference for Durgā
दुर्गा
The name in its original Devanagari form. दुर्गा → Durgā. Sanskrit Durgā is written in Devanagari as दुर्गा · 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)
DURGA
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.
Durgā
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
The name carries more than one valid sense. The primary sense is the figure or role; the etymology is the older linguistic root.
durgā.com → xn--durg-tsa.com
The non-ASCII characters in Durgā are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Durgā. PUNYCODEX does not claim this domain is available; always verify status with a registrar.
How durga becomes Durgā
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | d | → | D | Same | Same |
| 02 | u | → | u | Same | Short /u/ |
| 03 | r | → | r | Same | Same |
| 04 | g | → | g | Same | Same |
| 05 | a | → | ā | Length | Macron: long /aː/ |
Why Durgā is classified as Tier-1 Macron-Preserving
The Sanskrit name दुर्गा is represented by its most canonical scholarly spelling. For non-Greek names, Tier-1 status reflects the definitive attested restoration rather than Greek-style stress/length features. This is the authoritative Unicode form — a single-tier Tier-1 name.
See how Durgā behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
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