Scholarly Name Reference
N. of the ruler of Laṅkā or Ceylon and the famous chief of the Rākṣasas or demons whose destruction by Rāmacandra forms the subject of the Rāmāyaṇa (as son of Viśravas he was
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.
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 Macron-Preserving
The Sanskrit name रावण 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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