The Authentic Orthography
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Why tārā.com is the correct form
तारा
The name in its original Devanagari form. तारा → Tārā. Sanskrit Tārā is written in Devanagari as तारा · 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)
TARA
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.
Tārā
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
tārā.com → xn--tr-dlab.com
The non-ASCII characters in Tārā are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Tārā.
How tara becomes Tārā
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | t | → | T | Same | Same, capitalized |
| 02 | a | → | ā | Length | Long vowel |
| 03 | r | → | r | Same | Same |
| 04 | a | → | ā | Length | Long vowel |
Why Tārā is classified as Tier-1 Macron-Preserving
The Ancient name तारा 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 Tārā behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
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