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Varunʹa

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The Hindu Neptune. He is represented as an old man riding on a sea-monster, with a club in one hand and a rope in the other. In the Vedic hymns he is the night-sky, and Mitra the day-sky. Varuna is said to set free the “waters of the clouds.”

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Vandal
Vandyck
Vandyke
Vanessa
Vanity Fair
Vanoc
Vantage Loaf
Varina
Varnish
Varro
Varuna
Vassal
Vathek
Vatican
Vaudeville
Vaugirard
Vauxhall or Fauxhall
Ve
Veal. Calf
Vedas or Vedams
Vehmgerichte or Holy Vehme Tribunal

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Varuna