Scholarly Name Reference
also written Ravana
The ruler of Laṅkā (Ceylon) and famous chief of the Rākṣasas, whose destruction by Rāmacandra forms the subject of the Rāmāyaṇa; son of Viśravas and half-brother of Kubera, he is represented with ten heads.
Scholarly reference for Rāvaṇa
रावण
The name in its original Devanagari form. रावण → Rāvaṇa. Sanskrit Rāvaṇa is written in Devanagari as रावण · 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)
RAVANA
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.
Rāvaṇa
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.
rāvaṇa.com → xn--rvaa-qsa0806b.com
The non-ASCII characters in Rāvaṇa are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Rāvaṇa. PUNICODEX does not claim this domain is available; always verify status with a registrar.
RAH-vah-nah · /ˈraː.va.ɳa/
Derived from restored orthography (classical Sanskrit / IAST).
How ravana becomes Rāvaṇa
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | r | → | R | Same | Same, capitalized |
| 02 | a | → | ā | Length | Long vowel |
| 03 | v | → | v | Same | Same |
| 04 | a | → | a | Same | Same |
| 05 | n | → | ṇ | Special | N with dot: retroflex n |
| 06 | a | → | a | Same | Same |
Why Rāvaṇa is classified as Tier-1
The Sanskrit restoration रावण 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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