The Authentic Orthography
Obedience, Protection · Discipline, obedience
Why sraoša.com is the correct form
𐬯𐬭𐬀𐬊𐬱𐬀
The name in its original Avestan form. 𐬯𐬭𐬀𐬊𐬱𐬀 → Sraoša. Sraoša is the Avestan yazata of obedience and divine hearing. · The š sound is written with Avestan š (𐬱). · The diphthong ao is written with a (𐬀) followed by o (𐬊).
SRAOSHA
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.
Sraoša
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
sraoša.com → xn--sraoa-ydb.com
The non-ASCII characters in Sraoša are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Sraoša.
How sraosha becomes Sraoša
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | s | → | S | Same | Same, capitalized |
| 02 | r | → | r | Same | Same |
| 03 | a | → | a | Same | Same |
| 04 | o | → | o | Same | Same |
| 05 | s | → | š | Special | Special character |
| 06 | h | → | Drop | Dropped | |
| 07 | a | → | a | Same | Same |
Why Sraoša is classified as Tier-2 Basic
The Zoroastrian form 𐬯𐬭𐬀𐬊𐬱𐬀 preserves neither stress nor length in this Unicode restoration. This makes it a single-tier Tier-2 Basic name — still a scholarly step above plain ASCII, but without the distinctive phonetic features that define higher tiers.
See how Sraoša behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
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