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vāruṇī

vāruṇī́ (ī), f., see below


f. the western quarter or region (presided over by Varuṇa), the west (with or without diś), [VarBṛS.]


N. of partic. serpents, [GṛS.]


(pl.) of partic. sacred texts, [Gaut.]


Varuṇa's female Energy (personified either as his wife or as his daughter, produced at the churning of the ocean and regarded as the goddess of spirituous liquor), [TĀr.]; [MBh.]; [R.]; [Pur.]


a partic. kind of spirit (prepared from hogweed mixed with the juice of the date or palm and distilled), any spirituous liquor, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.


N. of Śiva's wife, [L.]


a partic. fast-day on the thirteenth of the dark half of Caitra, [Col.]


Dūrvā grass or a similar species, [L.]


colocynth, [L.]


the Nakṣatra Śata-bhiṣaj (ruled by Varuṇa), [L.]


N. of a river, [R.]