Scholarly Name Reference
also written Parashurama
'Rāma with the Axe' (paraśu 'axe') — the sixth avatāra of Viṣṇu, the Brahmin warrior who exterminates the kṣatriyas, counted among the immortal Cirañjīvī
Scholarly reference for Paraśurāma
परशुराम
The name in its original Devanagari form. परशुराम → Paraśurāma. Sanskrit Paraśurāma is written in Devanagari as परशुराम · 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)
PARASHURAMA
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.
Paraśurāma
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
paraśurāma.com → xn--paraurma-m7a11g.com
The non-ASCII characters in Paraśurāma are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Paraśurāma. PUNICODEX does not claim this domain is available; always verify status with a registrar.
pah-rah-shoo-RAH-mah · /pa. ra. ɕu. ˈraː. ma/
Derived from restored orthography (classical Sanskrit / IAST).
How parashurama becomes Paraśurāma
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | p | → | P | Same | Same |
| 02 | a | → | a | Same | Short /a/ |
| 03 | r | → | r | Same | Same |
| 04 | a | → | a | Same | Short /a/ |
| 05 | s | → | ś | Special | S-acute: palatal /ɕ/ |
| 06 | h | → | Drop | Dropped: digraph simplified | |
| 07 | u | → | u | Same | Short /u/ |
| 08 | r | → | r | Same | Same |
| 09 | a | → | ā | Length | Macron: long /aː/ |
| 10 | m | → | m | Same | Same |
| 11 | a | → | a | Same | Short /a/ |
Why Paraśurāma is classified as Tier-1
The Sanskrit restoration परशुराम 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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