LOGOI

The corpus record — Pali

vāruṇī

Vāruṇī

feminine spirituous liquor AN.iii.213 ; Ja.i.251 (˚vāṇija spirit merchant), Ja.i.268 ; Ja.vi.502 . an intoxicated woman; term for a female fortune-teller Ja.vi.500 (Vāruṇī ‘va pavedhati; C. devatā-bhūta-paviṭṭhā yakkha-dāsī viya gahitā, i.e. possessed), Ja.vi.587 (vāruṇī ‘va pavedhentī; C. yakkh’ āv

Every figure on this page is drawn from the corpus record.

Distribution

Senses

feminine

  1. spirituous liquor AN.iii.213; Ja.i.251 (˚vāṇija spirit merchant), Ja.i.268; Ja.vi.502.
  2. an intoxicated woman; term for a female fortune-teller Ja.vi.500 (Vāruṇī ‘va pavedhati; C. devatā-bhūta-paviṭṭhā yakkha-dāsī viya gahitā, i.e. possessed), Ja.vi.587 (vāruṇī ‘va pavedhentī; C. yakkh’ āviṭṭhā ikkhaṇikā viya).

cp. Sk. vāruṇī, with only ref. in BR.: Harivaṃśa 8432

Attestations

Downloads

Word record (JSON)·Concordance (CSV)·Frequencies (CSV)·Cite (BibTeX)

CC BY 4.0, with receipt attribution. What is exportable

Pali text and translations from SuttaCentral (Bilara), dedicated to the public domain (CC0). PTS Pali–English Dictionary entries, public domain.