Scholarly Name Reference
The avatāra yet to come — the tenth and final avatāra of Viṣṇu, who appears at the end of the Kali Yuga riding a white horse to destroy unrighteousness and restore the age of truth
Scholarly reference for Kalki
कल्कि
The name in its original Devanagari form. कल्कि → Kalki. Sanskrit Kalki is written in Devanagari as कल्कि · 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)
KALKI
This name is already attested in the Latin alphabet. The Unicode form Kalki is identical to ASCII apart from capitalization, so no diacritic, stress, or script information was erased.
Kalki
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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KAHL-kee · /ˈkal.ki/
Derived from restored orthography (classical Sanskrit / IAST).
How kalki becomes Kalki
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | k | → | K | Same | Same |
| 02 | a | → | a | Same | Short /a/ |
| 03 | l | → | l | Same | Same |
| 04 | k | → | k | Same | Same |
| 05 | i | → | i | Same | Short /i/ |
Why Kalki is classified as Tier-2
The Sanskrit name कल्कि 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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