The Authentic Orthography
Marital Fidelity, First Wife of Shiva · True, virtuous
Why satī.com is the correct form
सती
The name in its original Devanagari form. सती → Satī. Sanskrit Satī is written in Devanagari as सती · 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)
SATI
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.
Satī
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
satī.com → xn--sat-wta.com
The non-ASCII characters in Satī are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Satī.
How sati becomes Satī
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | s | → | S | Same | Same, capitalized |
| 02 | a | → | a | Same | Same |
| 03 | t | → | t | Same | Same |
| 04 | i | → | ī | Length | Long vowel |
Why Satī is classified as Tier-1 Macron-Preserving
The Sanskrit name सती 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 Satī behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
sati
→
Satī