Scholarly Name Reference
N. of a mountain (fabulous residence of Kubera and paradise of Śiva; placed in the Himālaya range and regarded as one of the loftiest peaks to the north of the Mānasa lake)
Scholarly reference for Kailāsa
कैलास
The name in its original Devanagari form. कैलास → Kailāsa. Sanskrit Kailāsa is written in Devanagari as कैलास · 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)
KAILASA
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.
Kailāsa
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.
kailāsa.com → xn--kailsa-6za.com
The non-ASCII characters in Kailāsa are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Kailāsa. PUNICODEX does not claim this domain is available; always verify status with a registrar.
How kailasa becomes Kailāsa
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | k | → | K | Same | Same, capitalized |
| 02 | a | → | a | Same | Same |
| 03 | i | → | i | Same | Same |
| 04 | l | → | l | Same | Same |
| 05 | a | → | ā | Length | Long vowel |
| 06 | s | → | s | Same | Same |
| 07 | a | → | a | Same | Same |
Why Kailāsa is classified as Tier-1 Macron-Preserving
The Sanskrit name कैलास is represented by its most canonical scholarly spelling. For non-Greek names, Tier-1 status reflects the definitive attested restoration rather than Greek-style stress/length features. This is the authoritative Unicode form — a single-tier Tier-1 name.
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