A History of Indian Literature v1.c8.s2.81

v1.c8.s2.81

Varuṇa, too, already in the Ṛgveda, is, as he is in the later mythology, the god of the sea, a god of the waters, and therefore he punishes people who have sinned, particularly with dropsy. A simple prayer by one who is suffering from dropsy is Ṛv. VII, 89. I give it in the translation of R. T. H. Griffith:—