The Authentic Orthography
Victory, War · Smiting of resistance
Why vərəθraγna.com is the correct form
𐬬𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬚𐬭𐬀𐬖𐬥𐬀
The name in its original Avestan form. 𐬬𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬚𐬭𐬀𐬖𐬥𐬀 → Vərəθraγna. Verethragna is the yazata of victory, celebrated in Yasht 14. · The medial θ corresponds to Avestan θ (𐬚). · The voiced velar fricative γ is written with Avestan γ (𐬖).
VERETHRAGNA
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.
Vərəθraγna
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
vərəθraγna.com → xn--vrrana-wycb032amb.com
The non-ASCII characters in Vərəθraγna are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Vərəθraγna.
How verethragna becomes Vərəθraγna
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | v | → | V | Same | Same, capitalized |
| 02 | e | → | ə | Special | Special character |
| 03 | r | → | r | Same | Same |
| 04 | e | → | ə | Special | Special character |
| 05 | t | → | θ | Special | Special character |
| 06 | h | → | r | Special | Special character |
| 07 | r | → | a | Special | Special character |
| 08 | a | → | γ | Special | Special character |
| 09 | g | → | n | Special | Special character |
| 10 | n | → | a | Special | Special character |
| 11 | a | → | Drop | Dropped |
Why Vərəθraγna is classified as Tier-2 Basic
The Zoroastrian form 𐬬𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬚𐬭𐬀𐬖𐬥𐬀 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 Vərəθraγna behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
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