A daughter of Aranya Prajapati, a wife of Caksusa and mother of Caksusa Manu, sister of Udaka

Varuni ("heavenly nectar") is the wife of Varuna and the goddess of wine and intoxication. She is a secret form of Vajravarahi and represents the purifying nectar of immortality (amrita). She is "the agent of transcendent wisdom" and by drinking the transformed alcohol, the initiate is prepared to begin his meditations.

She came out of the churning on the Ksioda and was appropriated by the Asuras