The Authentic Orthography
Sun, Light, Health · The Sun (from सूर्य)
Why sūrya.com is the correct form
Sūrya
The name in its original Sanskrit form. The original script is preserved in scholarly transliteration systems.
SURYA
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.
Sūrya
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
sūrya.com → xn--srya-v7a.com
The non-ASCII characters in Sūrya are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Sūrya.
How surya becomes Sūrya
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | s | → | S | Same | Same |
| 02 | u | → | ū | Length | Macron: long /uː/ |
| 03 | r | → | r | Same | Same |
| 04 | y | → | y | Same | Same |
| 05 | a | → | a | Same | Short /a/ |
Why Sūrya is classified as Tier-1 Macron-Preserving
The Sanskrit original Sūrya 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 Sūrya behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
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