Varuna (/ˈvɜːrʊnə, ˈvɑːrə-/; Sanskrit: वरुण, IAST: Varuṇa) is a Hindu god, associated with the sky, oceans, and water. In the Vedic scriptures, he is...
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20000 Varuna (provisional designation 2000 WR106) is a large trans-Neptunian object in the Kuiper belt. It was discovered in November 2000 by American...
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Mitra and Varuna (Sanskrit: mitrā́váruṇā) are two deities frequently referred to in the ancient Indian scripture of the Rigveda. They are both considered...
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have been named USS Varuna for Varuna, the Vedic god of oceans and rivers and keeper of the souls of the drowned. The first USS Varuna (1861) was a screw...
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Look up Varuna or वरुण in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Varuna is a Hindu god. Varuna may also refer to: Mitra–Varuna, dual Hindu deities, incorporating...
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Varuna Vidhan Sabha seat is one of the seats in Karnataka State Assembly in India. It is part of Chamarajanagar Lok Sabha seat. The constituency came into...
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The Varuna River is a minor tributary of the Ganges River in Uttar Pradesh, India. It originates at Phulpur in the Prayagraj district and merges into the...
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primarily in the dvandva compound Mitra-Varuna, which has essentially the same attributes as the god Varuna alone, e.g. as the principal guardian of...
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Laubuka varuna is a cyprinid fish species in the family Cyprinidae. It is endemic to Sri Lanka. The specific name varuna is from Sinhala language meaning...
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Mitra-Varuna is a proposed deity or dyad of deities suggested to have existed in Proto-Indo-European religion and mythology. First proposed by Georges...
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Uranus (mythology) (section Váruṇa)
identification by Georges Dumézil (1934) of Uranus with the Vedic deity Váruṇa (Mitanni Aruna), god of the sky and waters, but the etymological equation...
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The Royal Varuna Yacht Club (RVYC) (Thai: สมาคมสโมสรราชวรุณในพระบรมราชูปถัมภ์) is a yacht club near Pattaya, a popular tourist destination in Thailand...
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Varuna is a village in Mysore district of Karnataka state, India. Varuna village is located on Tirumakudal Narsipur road at a distance of 13.3 km from...
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Varuna litterata, also known as the river swimming crab or the peregrine crab, is a euryhaline species of crab native to the Indo-Pacific. It is commonly...
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INS Varuna (God of the Ocean) is India's first square rig sail training vessel of the Indian Navy incidentally also in Asia. Varuna was completed in April...
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USS Varuna was a screw steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. Under construction in 1861, she was purchased incomplete on 31...
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SS Varuna Angela Zhou as Teddy Goh, the crew manager on the SS Varuna Hugo Diego Garcia as Jules Toussaint, the head of security on the SS Varuna Linda...
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Varuna, The National Writers’ House is Australia's national residential writers' house located in Katoomba, in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia...
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safe seat of Varuna in the 2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election, winning comfortably. "Varuna Election Result 2018 Live: Varuna Assembly Elections...
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"NOTE- THE TRAIN HAS BEEN PERMANENTLY CANCELLED" The Varanasi–Kanpur Central Varuna Express is an Express train belonging to Northern Railway zone that runs...
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The annually held Varuna naval exercise is an integral part of France–India strategic relationship in the 21st century and consists of naval cooperation...
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presently the leader of the Congress Legislative Party. He represented the Varuna Assembly constituency from 2023, previously from 2008 to 2018, Badami Assembly...
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of Varuna. When Varuna manifested before him, Kashyapa requested him for a boon of limitless offerings to perform the yajna successfully. Varuna offered...
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Varuna is a political literature book written and published in 1907 by German social Darwinist and racialist Willibald Hentschel. The book is named after...
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Agyrta varuna is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae. It was described by Herbert Druce in 1907. It is found in Peru. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching...
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consists of Vivasvan (Surya), Aryaman, Tvashta, Savitr, Bhaga, Dhata, Mitra, Varuna, Amsa, Pushan, Indra and Vishnu (in the form of Vamana). They appear in...
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Ṛta (category Varuna)
been "placed at the root of Ṛta"; Varuna is praised as "having the form of Ṛta" and, along with Mitra as Mitra-Varuna, as "destroying the foes by Ṛta"...
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Indra and Varuna, as equally great. In another hymn, particularly the Rigvedic verse 7.83.9, Vasishtha teaches that the Vedic gods Indra and Varuna are complementary...
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Griffith. Some dedications are to paired deities, such as Indra-Agni, Mitra-Varuna, Soma-Rudra, here counted double. Visvedevas (all gods and goddesses together)...
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Piz Varuna (3,453 m) is a mountain in the Bernina Range of the Alps, located on the border between Italy and Switzerland. It lies east of Piz Palü, between...
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