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Why saṃsāra.com is the correct form
संसार
The name in its original Devanagari form. संसार → Saṃsāra. Sanskrit Saṃsāra is written in Devanagari as संसार · 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)
SAMSARA
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.
Saṃsāra
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
saṃsāra.com → xn--sasra-hwa2453c.com
The non-ASCII characters in Saṃsāra are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Saṃsāra.
How samsara becomes Saṃsāra
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | s | → | S | Same | Same, capitalized |
| 02 | a | → | a | Same | Same |
| 03 | m | → | ṃ | Special | M with dot: anusvara |
| 04 | s | → | s | Same | Same |
| 05 | a | → | ā | Length | Long vowel |
| 06 | r | → | r | Same | Same |
| 07 | a | → | a | Same | Same |
Why Saṃsāra is classified as Tier-2 Macron-Preserving
The Sanskrit original संसार contains only length (macron vowel). 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 Saṃsāra behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
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