Pāli Dictionary
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Varuṇa
PersonOne of the chief lay disciples of Sumana Buddha.
Varuṇa2
PersonA son of Revata Buddha and also his chief disciple, who once taught vast crowds on the three characteristics and ordained a hundred thousand persons during an illness.
Varuṇa3
PersonThe personal attendant of Anomadassī Buddha.
Varuṇa4
PersonThe personal attendant of Paduma Buddha.
Varuṇa5
PersonThe name shared by eight kings who lived sixteen world-cycles ago, all previous births of the elder Malitavambha.
Varuṇa6
PersonA disciple of Piyadassī Buddha.
Varuṇa7
PersonA brahmin who was a former birth of the elder Suppiya.
Varuṇa8
PersonA king who lived fifty-one world-cycles ago in a previous birth of the elder Sayanadāyaka.
Varuṇa9
PersonThe name shared by two kings who lived one hundred and sixty world-cycles ago, both previous births of the elder Sucintita.
Varuṇa10
PersonA king who lived forty world-cycles ago in a previous birth of the elder Ekasaññaka.
Varuṇa11
PersonA king in the time of Atthadassī Buddha, described as either a deva-king or a sole ruler in different sources, and a previous birth of the elder Sīvalī.
Varuṇa12
PersonA grain-field watcher who gave grass to Siddhattha Buddha to serve as his seat.
Varuṇa13
PersonA brahmin village that was the residence of the brahmin Vasabha.
Varuṇa14
PersonA king who lived twenty-five world-cycles ago in a former birth of the elder Piliṇḍavaccha.
Varuṇa15
PersonA Nāga king in the time of Anomadassī Buddha, a previous birth of Mahā-Moggallāna, who once played music for that Buddha and hosted him in his abode.
Varuṇa16
PersonAn ascetic who, together with the hunter Sura, discovered how to make intoxicating liquor, later known as Vāruṇī.
Varuṇa17
PersonA Nāga king, husband of Vimalā and father of Irandatī in the Vidhurapaṇḍita Jātaka, who is there identified with Sāriputta.
Varuṇa18
PersonA king of the devas ranked alongside Sakka, Pajāpati, and Isāna, invoked by brahmins in ritual formulas and counted among the chief yakkha protectors, said by Buddhaghosa to hold the third seat in the assembly of devas.
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