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Ancient sky god
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varuna
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Varuna is the debut album by the Long Island indie rock band The Republic of Wolves . It was originally released on iTunes and physically on their web store on November 30, 2010. It has also been released on vinyl record by Simple Stereo. The album was ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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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'.