Scholarly Name Reference
also written Kurma
The Tortoise — second avatāra of Viṣṇu, who bears Mount Mandara on his back as the pivot during the churning of the ocean of milk
Scholarly reference for Kūrma
कूर्म
The name in its original Devanagari form. कूर्म → Kūrma. Sanskrit Kūrma is written in Devanagari as कूर्म · 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)
KURMA
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.
Kūrma
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
kūrma.com → xn--krma-v7a.com
The non-ASCII characters in Kūrma are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Kūrma. PUNICODEX does not claim this domain is available; always verify status with a registrar.
KOOR-mah · /ˈkuːr. ma/
Derived from restored orthography (classical Sanskrit / IAST).
How kurma becomes Kūrma
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | k | → | K | Same | Same |
| 02 | u | → | ū | Length | Macron: long /uː/ |
| 03 | r | → | r | Same | Same |
| 04 | m | → | m | Same | Same |
| 05 | a | → | a | Same | Short /a/ |
Why Kūrma is classified as Tier-1
The Sanskrit restoration कूर्म 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.
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