Scholarly Name Reference
'Hard to Conquer in Battle' (dur- 'hard' + yodhana 'fighting') — the eldest Kaurava, rival of the Pāṇḍavas whose refusal to yield their share of the kingdom brings about the Kurukṣetra war
Scholarly reference for Duryodhana
दुर्योधन
The name in its original Devanagari form. दुर्योधन → Duryodhana. Sanskrit Duryodhana is written in Devanagari as दुर्योधन · 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)
DURYODHANA
This name is already attested in the Latin alphabet. The Unicode form Duryodhana is identical to ASCII apart from capitalization, so no diacritic, stress, or script information was erased.
Duryodhana
Because the name is already in Latin letters, the Unicode restoration does not add diacritics or change the script. Its value here is canonical spelling and consistent cataloguing, not the recovery of lost marks.
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door-YOH-dah-nah · /dur.ˈjoː.dʱa.na/
Derived from restored orthography (classical Sanskrit / IAST).
How duryodhana becomes Duryodhana
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | d | → | D | Same | Same |
| 02 | u | → | u | Same | Short /u/ |
| 03 | r | → | r | Same | Same |
| 04 | y | → | y | Same | Same |
| 05 | o | → | o | Same | Same |
| 06 | d | → | d | Same | Same |
| 07 | h | → | h | Same | Same: aspirate /dʱ/ |
| 08 | a | → | a | Same | Short /a/ |
| 09 | n | → | n | Same | Same |
| 10 | a | → | a | Same | Short /a/ |
Why Duryodhana is classified as Tier-2
The Sanskrit name दुर्योधन is attested in its original script (shown above) as well as in the Latin alphabet. The Unicode restoration is identical to ASCII, so no diacritic or script recovery is needed. It is catalogued as a single-tier Tier-2 name because the scholarly form carries no stress or length marks.
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