vāruṇī (f)
Meanings
- a particular fast-day on the thirteenth of the dark half of Caitra
- a particular kind of spirit (prepared from hogweed mixed with the juice of the date or palm and distilled)
- any spirituous liquor
- colocynth
- Dūrvā grass or a similar species
- name of a river
- name of particular sacred texts
- name of particular serpents
- name of Śiva's wife
- the Nakṣatra Śata-bhishaj (ruled by Varuṇa)
- the west
- the western quarter or region (presided over by Varuṇa)
- Varuṇa's female Energy (personified either as his wife or as his daughter)
- a kind of alchemical apparatus
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