The provenance file on Narasiṃha
Provenance record 241 · Narasiṃha · one temple, fully accounted for.
Provenance
1. The attestation. नरसिंह, from the tradition's own record. On record: Monier-Williams, Bhagavata Purana, Ramayana.
2. The narrative record. Primary Attestation — Narasiṃha is attested in the canonical Sanskrit sources as a figure associated with man-lion avatar. Name and Meaning — The name means "The Man-Lion — the fourth avatāra of Viṣṇu" and reflects the figure's role in the tradition.
3. The physical record. Narasiṃha is attested in the textual and iconographic record of the Sanskrit tradition.
4. The current holding. The temple at /sites/narasimha/, classified Tier 1. The restoration preserves more than the ASCII form can express — stress, length, or a letter the Latin keyboard lost — which places it, mechanically, in Tier-1.
5. The documented resonances. Mythic Name Restoration, Diacritic-First Domains, Global Pantheon Brands — seats argued and weighted in the pattern atlas, read through the myths in this temple's Resonance File.
6. The primary sources. Rig Veda, Ramayana — the library this file answers to, open at the Sacred Texts collection.
7. The continuing record. Narasiṃha continues to appear in scholarship, art, and popular reception as a significant figure of the Sanskrit tradition. Restoring the name in Unicode returns the original marks that ASCII removes.
At a Glance
- Restored name: Narasiṃha
- ASCII form: narasimha
- Meaning: "The Man-Lion — the fourth avatāra of Viṣṇu"
- Domain of influence: Man-Lion Avatar
- Pantheon: Sanskrit
- Classification: Tier 1
- Original script: नरसिंह
- Series: The Restoration Files, No. 241 of 397
The Emblems
The name does not travel alone. Restored Name — The Unicode form Narasiṃha carries the original marks of the Sanskrit tradition.; Source Script — Preserved through scholarly transliteration and canonical sources.; Domain — Man-Lion Avatar. Each emblem is filed in the temple's record with its own provenance, the same discipline the spelling gets.
For the Voice
'NARASIMHA' — pronounce the restored form with attention to the preserved diacritics and length. The reconstructed line runs `/narasimha/` — the temple's pronunciation atlas carries the phonemes one by one.
The Discipline It Answers To
This restoration belongs to Sanskrit, a tradition where the name and the thing named were never fully separate. The rules that govern it are not house style; they are the tradition's own scholarship, applied with the same care here as in any edition — and published, with the sources, so the file can be checked the way an edition can be checked. The restoration preserves more than the ASCII form can express — stress, length, or a letter the Latin keyboard lost — which places it, mechanically, in Tier-1.
The File Continues
Read the founding dispatch for the name's full story, the Resonance File for the archetype at work — or the whole archive in one sitting.
Continue the series — previous file: Nanna (read it here) · next file: Neptūnus (read it here).
The Restoration Files are written from the same canonical record as the temples themselves: the lexicon, the lore catalog, the pattern atlas, and the cited scholarly sources. If a file ever disagrees with its temple, the temple is right — tell us, and the file will be corrected.