Varuna, the all-embracing sky, is also in many hymns a solar deity.
Surya keeps his eye on men and reports their failings to Varuna and Mitra.
Indra and Agni are frequently so treated; so are Varuna and Mitra.
And yet we know that there never was such a Deva, or god, or such a thing as Varuna.
The sages all tell me the same: Varuna it is who is angry with thee.
The Varuna fired a broadside into us instead of into the enemy.
Two cotton threads are laid on a vessel representing Varuna.
Mitra and Varuna came to her; and said to her, ‘Who art thou?’
He dwells with Varuna in the third heaven, the heaven of light.
They are attendants of Varuna, their chief, as the Maruts are attendants of Indra.
