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varuna
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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 the Hindu god Varuna . Hentschel declares the importance of racial purification of the Aryan race ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Varuna \Va*ru"na\ (v[.a]*r[udd]"n[.a]), n. [Skr. Varu[.n]a.] (Hindu Myth.) The god of the waters; the Indian Neptune. He is regarded as regent of the west, and lord of punishment, and is represented as riding on a sea monster, holding in his hand a snaky ...
Usage examples of varuna.
They even accepted the fact that their own high deities Varuna, Mithra, Rudra were, to us, devils.
Among the Aditya is Varuna, the equivalent of Uranos, whose identification with Atlantis I have shown.
Jane Williams, Victoria Hammond, and especially Gail Bell for making me feel welcome among non-sf writers at the Varuna Writers' Centre and Carol Boothman, for her wisdom.
To take one simple example: the name of the Indian god Varuna has been identified etymologically with that of the Graeco-Roman god Uranus (Greek, Ouranos), also a common noun for 'heaven'.