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 cord or noose with which to bind offenders, under water.
Brahma took the Varuni body and offered his Sukta
(vah-ROO-nah): the Vedic god of oaths and the patron deity of Fighting Tiger Chaplains.
The Vedic god of natural and moral law; probably the sky god in earliest times.
early Hindu god of natural and moral order.
Vedic deity of cosmic order
in Vedism, god of the night sky who with his thousand eyes watches over human conduct and judges good and evil and punishes evildoers; often considered king of the Hindu gods and frequently paired with Mitra as an upholder of the world
The presiding deity of the ocean in Hindu mythology.
Varuna is a large Kuiper object - a body in our Solar System that orbits far from the Sun. Varuna (2000 WR106) is a rocky body about 900 km in diameter. It is roughly 43 AU from the Sun (assuming a circular orbit). One orbit around the Sun takes about 285 years. It has an apparent magnitude of 20. This Transneptunian object (TNO) was discovered from the Kitt Peak Observatory by Robert S. McMillan on November 28, 2000. Varuna was named for the oldest of the vedic (Hindu) deities, the maker and upholder of heaven and the earth.
Law, the Sky and the Ocean | Abode = Celestial ocean (RasÄ) | Mantra = | Weapon = Noose | Consort = Varuni | Mount = Makara (Hindu mythology) | Planet = Venus }} In Vedic religion, Varuna (Devanagari:वरà¥à¤£, IAST:) is a god of the sky, of rain and of the celestial ocean, as well as a god of law and of the underworld. He is the most prominent Asura in the Rigveda, and chief of the Adityas.