Vāruṇī (City)

Vāruṇī, “the city of Varuṇa”

Vāruṇī has other meanings too: see all meanings of Vāruṇī.

Vāruṇī is a deva-nagara, a city of the devas, named fifth of the seven that stand above the varsha-parvatas in the Brahma Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

The cities of the devas

Sumantu Muni tells King Śatānīka in the Brahma Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa that above the six varsha-parvatas, Himavat, Hemakūṭa, Nishadha, Nīla, Śveta and Śṛṅgavat, with the great silver mountain Mahārajata in their middle, stand the deva-nagaras, the cities of the devas: Māhendrī, Āgneyī, Yāmyā, Nairṛtī, Vāruṇī, Vāyavyā and Īśānī. Seven are named.

Source: Bhavishya Purāṇa, Brahma Parva, Chapter 126

Sources

  • Bhavishya Purāṇa, Brahma Parva, Chapter 126