PuniCodex

The Authentic Orthography

असन्ग Asanga

Yogacara, Mind-Only · Without attachment

Tier 2 Asanga
Asanga — Yogacara, Mind-Only
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The Authentic Name

Unicode restoration and ASCII comparison

Original Script

असन्ग

The name in its original Buddhist form. Asanga (असन्ग) is attested in the source tradition — “Without attachment”. Its original diacritics and script distinctions carry the full phonetic and orthographic weight of the source tradition.

ASCII Constraint

asanga

The plain asanga form is identical to the Unicode restoration. Because this name is already written in Latin letters, no diacritics, stress, or script information were lost — only capitalization differs.

Unicode Restoration

Asanga

The Unicode restoration does not need to recover lost marks for Asanga. Its value is canonical spelling and consistent cataloguing, not the reconstruction of erased orthography. The domain is readable as-is to both DNS and humanity.

Punycode Encoding
Asanga.com → asanga.com

The non-ASCII characters in Asanga are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Asanga.

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Original Script & Provenance

How Asanga travels from ancient script to the modern URL

असन्ग
Devanagari
Asanga
Letter
Letter
Letter
Letter
Letter
Original Script
असन्ग
Indigenous writing
Transliteration
Asanga
Scholarly reading
Unicode Restoration
Asanga
Registrable form
Punycode
asanga.com
DNS encoding
ASCII Fallback
asanga
Flattened spelling

From original to transliteration

  1. Sanskrit Asanga is written in Devanagari as असन्ग
  2. IAST transliteration maps each Devanagari vowel and consonant to a Latin equivalent
  3. Macrons mark long vowels (ā, ī, ū); dots beneath consonants mark retroflex articulation (ṭ, ḍ, ṇ, ṣ)
Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryTier 2
Macdonell, Sanskrit Grammar for StudentsTier 2
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Name Variations

Owned, ideal, and ASCII forms of Asanga

Canonical Restoration

Asanga

Restores असन्ग. The full Unicode restoration. asanga.com is not in the PuniCodex collection — it is watched for release; if it drops, this temple upgrades to an owned flagship.

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Pronunciation

How Asanga was spoken

/asanga/ Restored scholarly form
asanga The canonical restored form Asanga.
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Asanga

Yogacara

Asanga is yogacara, mind-only. The name means "Without attachment" and belongs to the buddhist tradition.

Sacred Name

The restoration Asanga returns the figure to scholarly recognition.

Yogacara

Central domain: yogacara, mind-only.

Living Tradition

Honored in buddhist myth, cult, and cultural memory.

Unicode Restoration

Preserved as a flagship temple despite the unregistrable plain-ASCII form.

Sacred Symbols

Name The restored form Asanga, carrying scholarly and cultural weight.
Domain Yogacara, Mind-Only
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Mythology

Stories of Asanga

The stories of Asanga place yogacara, mind-only at the center of a living mythological world.

Myth

Origins

Asanga appears in buddhist tradition as yogacara, mind-only. The name's meaning, "Without attachment", shapes the narratives told about this figure.

Cult

Worship and Memory

Devotees and later tradition-keepers preserved Asanga in ritual, text, and iconography, ensuring the name survived into the modern scholarly record.

Go Deeper

Extended Lore

The lore you have read is the surface — the living myth. Beneath it lies the scholarship: etymology, reconstructed pronunciation, Unicode character breakdown, and the cultural legacy of Asanga.

Enter Extended Lore
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