Word: varuna
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...Hindu ceremony in the Indian state of Rajasthan, Agriculture Minister G.S. Dhillon joined last week with local farmers in chanting a plea to the rain god Varuna. Across the country, farm workers fell into similar prayers. But even appeals to the gods went unheeded. India is plagued by its worst drought conditions in a century, and suffering is widespread...
INDIA. From the Indian Ocean to the Himalayan foothills, villagers are making offerings of rice and flowers to the rain god Varuna, and schoolchildren begin and end their days by praying for rainfall. But the heavens have rarely responded. In the space of six weeks, 100 of the 8,000 inhabitants of the town of Solankiya died of malnutrition and other drought-related diseases. Even when rain does fall, it comes in the wrong place at the wrong time. A sudden torrential downpour in the western state of Gujarat last week caused raging floods that claimed more than 800 lives...
...staged by the Norwegian Society of Brooklyn that six of her crew, including Captain Magnus Anderssen, ended up in Brooklyn's Butler Street police court charged with being drunk and disorderly. The presiding magistrate, James M. Tighe, who happened to be president of Brooklyn's own Celtic Varuna Boat Club, was not impressed with the difficulties of the Norsemen's voyage. "A boat like that," he said, "will float like a chip on the water and never go down. I myself would be ready any day to make one of a crew to row her back...
...comparison with this the Vedas religion was much older. It began its development in the early stages of polytheism. Later there came to be one chief God not superior to all the others, but, so to speak, chief among equals. This chief God was Varuna, the enveloper of heaven and sea. The conception of this great enveloper was very beautiful. Dr. Everett read a hymn to Varuna which almost reached the lofty idea of monotheism. But the worship of Varuna gave place to that of Indra, the God of thunder showers. Here again the religion rose to the verge...
Harvard had entered no team for the tug-of-war contests. In these the Pastime club pulled Brown university, Princeton pulled the Manhattan club after one dead heat, the Berkeley pulled the Craigie club, and Varuna defeated Tech. In the second round the Pastime was a winner over the Berkeley, and the Varuna over the Princeton team. The finals between the Pastime and the Varuna clubs, was won by the former by one and a half inches...