The Authentic Orthography
Virtue, Kingship, Avatar of Vishnu · Pleasing, dark (from राम)
Why rāma.com is the correct form
Rāma
The name in its original Sanskrit form. The original script is preserved in scholarly transliteration systems.
RAMA
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.
Rāma
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
rāma.com → xn--rma-1oa.com
The non-ASCII characters in Rāma are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Rāma.
How rama becomes Rāma
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | r | → | R | Same | Same |
| 02 | a | → | ā | Length | Macron: long /aː/ |
| 03 | m | → | m | Same | Same |
| 04 | a | → | a | Same | Short /a/ |
Why Rāma is classified as Tier-1 Macron-Preserving
The Sanskrit original Rāma contains both stress AND at least one long vowel. However, there is only one historically valid Unicode restoration. The ASCII fallback is modern English, not ancient canonical. This is the full scholarly orthography — a single-tier Tier-1 name.
See how Rāma behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
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