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.