Vāruṇī
PersonUn nom donné aux femmes esclaves qui servaient dans la crainte du dieu des eaux Varuṇa, et qu’un passage du Jātaka explique plutôt comme des diseuses de bonne aventure possédées par un yakkha.
The name given to slave women, attendants of Varuṇa. They live in dread of him. J.vi.500, 501. At J.vi.586 (in the Vessantara Jātaka) Vāruṇī is explained as “Vāruṇīvā’ti yakkhāviṭṭhā ikkhaṇikā,” — fortune tellers possessed by a yakkha — the yakkha being perhaps Varuṇa.
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