Scholarly Name Reference
also written Varaha
The Boar — third avatāra of Viṣṇu, who dives into the cosmic waters and raises the sunken Earth (Bhūdevī) on his tusks
Scholarly reference for Varāha
वराह
The name in its original Devanagari form. वराह → Varāha. Sanskrit Varāha is written in Devanagari as वराह · 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)
VARAHA
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.
Varāha
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
varāha.com → xn--varha-hwa.com
The non-ASCII characters in Varāha are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Varāha. PUNICODEX does not claim this domain is available; always verify status with a registrar.
vah-RAH-hah · /va. ˈraː. ha/
Derived from restored orthography (classical Sanskrit / IAST).
How varaha becomes Varāha
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | v | → | V | Same | Same |
| 02 | a | → | a | Same | Short /a/ |
| 03 | r | → | r | Same | Same |
| 04 | a | → | ā | Length | Macron: long /aː/ |
| 05 | h | → | h | Same | Same |
| 06 | a | → | a | Same | Short /a/ |
Why Varāha is classified as Tier-1
The Sanskrit restoration वराह preserves at least one distinctive feature its ASCII form loses — a diacritic or a distinctive letter that marks the original phonology. This makes it a single-tier Tier-1 name.
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