Scholarly Name Reference
also written Kailasa
Name of a mountain — the fabled residence of Kubera and paradise of Śiva, placed in the Himālaya range and regarded as one of the loftiest peaks north of the Mānasa lake.
Scholarly reference for Kailāsa
कैलास
The name in its original Devanagari form. कैलास → Kailāsa. Sanskrit Kailāsa is written in Devanagari as कैलास · 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)
KAILASA
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.
Kailāsa
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
The name carries more than one valid sense. The primary sense is the figure or role; the etymology is the older linguistic root.
kailāsa.com → xn--kailsa-6za.com
The non-ASCII characters in Kailāsa are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Kailāsa. PUNICODEX does not claim this domain is available; always verify status with a registrar.
keye-LAH-sah · /kaj.ˈlaː.sa/
Derived from restored orthography (classical Sanskrit / IAST).
How kailasa becomes Kailāsa
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | k | → | K | Same | Same, capitalized |
| 02 | a | → | a | Same | Same |
| 03 | i | → | i | Same | Same |
| 04 | l | → | l | Same | Same |
| 05 | a | → | ā | Length | Long vowel |
| 06 | s | → | s | Same | Same |
| 07 | a | → | a | Same | Same |
Why Kailāsa is classified as Tier-1
The Sanskrit restoration कैलास preserves at least one distinctive feature its ASCII form loses — a diacritic or a distinctive letter that marks the original phonology. This makes it a single-tier Tier-1 name.
See how Kailāsa behaves in the PUNICODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
kailasa
→
Kailāsa