The Authentic Orthography
Love, Compassion, Avatar of Vishnu · Dark, dark-blue (from कृष्ण)
Why kṛṣṇa.com is the correct form
Kṛṣṇa
The name in its original Sanskrit form. The original script is preserved in scholarly transliteration systems.
KRISHNA
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.
Kṛṣṇa
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
kṛṣṇa.com → xn--ka-pxszdub.com
The non-ASCII characters in Kṛṣṇa are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Kṛṣṇa.
How krishna becomes Kṛṣṇa
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | k | → | K | Same | Same |
| 02 | r | → | ṛ | Special | R-dot-under: vocalic /r/ |
| 03 | i | → | Drop | Dropped: absorbed in ṛ | |
| 04 | s | → | ṣ | Special | S-dot-under: retroflex /ʂ/ |
| 05 | h | → | Drop | Dropped: digraph simplified | |
| 06 | n | → | ṇ | Special | N-dot-under: retroflex /ɳ/ |
| 07 | a | → | a | Same | Short /a/ |
Why Kṛṣṇa is classified as Tier-2 Basic
The Sanskrit original Kṛṣṇa contains only no distinctive phonetic features. This makes it a single-tier Tier-2 name. The Unicode restoration preserves what can be preserved — honoring the single feature that distinguishes it from plain ASCII.
See how Kṛṣṇa behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
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