Scholarly Name Reference
also written Putana
A female demon said to cause disease in children; sent by Kaṃsa, she offered her poisoned breast to the infant Kṛṣṇa, who seized it and sucked away her life.
Scholarly reference for Pūtanā
पूतना
The name in its original Devanagari form. पूतना → Pūtanā. Sanskrit Pūtanā is written in Devanagari as पूतना · 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)
PUTANA
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.
Pūtanā
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.
pūtanā.com → xn--ptan-tsa64d.com
The non-ASCII characters in Pūtanā are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Pūtanā. PUNICODEX does not claim this domain is available; always verify status with a registrar.
POO-tah-nah · /ˈpuː.ta.naː/
Derived from restored orthography (classical Sanskrit / IAST).
How putana becomes Pūtanā
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | p | → | P | Same | Same, capitalized |
| 02 | u | → | ū | Length | Long vowel |
| 03 | t | → | t | Same | Same |
| 04 | a | → | a | Same | Same |
| 05 | n | → | n | Same | Same |
| 06 | a | → | ā | Length | Long vowel |
Why Pūtanā is classified as Tier-1
The Sanskrit restoration पूतना 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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