Scholarly Name Reference
also written Moksha
Liberation from the cycle of rebirth — the fourth and highest aim of human life
Scholarly reference for Mokṣa
मोक्ष
The name in its original Devanagari form. मोक्ष → Mokṣa. Sanskrit Mokṣa is written in Devanagari as मोक्ष · 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)
MOKSHA
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.
Mokṣa
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.
mokṣa.com → xn--moka-di5a.com
The non-ASCII characters in Mokṣa are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Mokṣa. PUNICODEX does not claim this domain is available; always verify status with a registrar.
MOHK-shah · /ˈmoːk.ʂa/
Derived from restored orthography (classical Sanskrit / IAST).
How moksha becomes Mokṣa
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | m | → | M | Same | Same, capitalized |
| 02 | o | → | o | Same | Same |
| 03 | k | → | k | Same | Same |
| 04 | s | → | ṣ | Special | S with dot: retroflex s |
| 05 | h | → | Drop | Dropped | |
| 06 | a | → | a | Same | Same |
Why Mokṣa is classified as Tier-1
The Sanskrit restoration मोक्ष 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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