Scholarly Name Reference
N. of a celebrated Buddhist scholar, Hcar.; Buddh.
Scholarly reference for Vasubandhu
वसुबन्धु
The name in its original Devanagari form. वसुबन्धु → Vasubandhu. Sanskrit Vasubandhu is written in Devanagari as वसुबन्धु · 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)
VASUBANDHU
This name is already attested in the Latin alphabet. The Unicode form Vasubandhu is identical to ASCII apart from capitalization, so no diacritic, stress, or script information was erased.
Vasubandhu
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.
The name carries more than one valid sense. The primary sense is the figure or role; the etymology is the older linguistic root.
vasubandhu.com → vasubandhu.com
Because Vasubandhu uses only ASCII characters, no Punycode encoding is required. The browser displays the name as-is. This domain is currently registered by another party.
How vasubandhu becomes Vasubandhu
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | v | → | V | Same | Same, capitalized |
| 02 | a | → | a | Same | Same |
| 03 | s | → | s | Same | Same |
| 04 | u | → | u | Same | Same |
| 05 | b | → | b | Same | Same |
| 06 | a | → | a | Same | Same |
| 07 | n | → | n | Same | Same |
| 08 | d | → | d | Same | Same |
| 09 | h | → | h | Same | Same |
| 10 | u | → | u | Same | Same |
Why Vasubandhu is classified as Tier-2 Basic
The Ancient name वसुबन्धु is attested 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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