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ཆུ་ལྷ། | Glossary of Terms
ཆུ་ལྷ།
chu lha
Varuṇa
- Person
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- Varuṇa
- ཆུ་ལྷ།
- chu lha
- Varuṇa
A god.
- Varuṇa
- ཆུའི་ལྷ།
- ཆུ་ཡི་ལྷ།
- chu’i lha
- chu yi lha
- Varuṇa
The name of the deity of water, whose weapon is a noose. In the Vedas, Varuṇa is an important deity and in particular the deity of the sky, but in later Indian tradition he is the deity of the water and the underworld. The Tibetan does not attempt to translate his name but instead has “god of water.” The Sanskrit name has ancient pre-Sanskrit origins, and, as he was originally the god of the sky, is related to the root vṛ, meaning “enveloping” or “covering.” He has the same ancient origins as the ancient Greek sky deity Uranus and the Zoroastrian supreme deity Mazda.
- Varuṇa
- ཆུ་ལྷ།
- chu lha
- Varuṇa
- Varuṇa
- ཆུ་ལྷ།
- chu lha
- varuṇa
A god.
- Varuṇa
- ཆུ་ཡི་ལྷ།
- chu yi lha
- Varuṇa
In the Vedas, Varuṇa is an important deity and in particular the deity of the sky, but in later Indian tradition only of the water and the underworld. The Tibetan does not attempt to translate his name but instead says “god of water.” The Sanskrit name has ancient pre-Sanskrit origins, and as he was originally the god of the sky is related to the root vṛ, meaning “enveloping” or “covering.” He has the same ancient origins as the ancient Greek sky deity Uranus and the Zoroastrian supreme deity Mazda.
- Varuṇa
- ཆུ་ལྷ།
- chu lha
- Varuṇa
The principal nāga king; also the god of the sea in the Vedas. In this sūtra Sāgara is an alternative name and not another nāga.
- Varuṇa
- ཆུ་ལྷ།
- chu lha
- Varuṇa
- Varuṇa
- ཆུའི་ལྷ།
- chu’i lha
- Varuṇa
The Vedic deity understood in later periods to be the lord of waters; thus the Tibetans translate his name as “God of Water” (chu’i lha). In The Question of Mañjuśrī his image is the fiftieth of the eighty designs on the palms of the hand and feet of the Tathāgata.
- Varuṇa
- ཆུ་ལྷ།
- chu lha
- Varuṇa
One of the guardian deities.
- Varuṇa
- ཆུ་ལྷ།
- chu lha
- Varuṇa
Vedic deity of the sky, water, and ocean.
- Varuṇa
- ཆུ་ལྷ།
- chu lha
- Varuṇa
The name of one of the oldest of the Vedic gods, associated with the waters.
- Varuṇa
- ཆུ་ལྷ།
- chu lha
- Varuṇa
The god of waters.
- Varuṇa
- ཆུ་ལྷ།
- chu lha
- Varuṇa
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- Varuṇa
- ཆུ་ལྷ།
- བ་རུ་ཎ།
- པ་རུ་ཎ།
- chu lha
- ba ru Na
- pa ru Na
- Varuṇa
Apart from the god of water, Varuṇa can be the name of several other figures, including a nāga king.
- Varuṇa
- ཆུ།
- ཆུ་ལྷ།
- chu
- chu lha
- Varuṇa
The god of water.
- Varuṇa
- ཆུ་ལྷ།
- chu lha
- Varuṇa
One of the eight guardians of the directions, Varuṇa guards the northeast quarter.
- Varuṇadeva
- ཆུ་ལྷ།
- chu lha
- Varuṇadeva