of the heaven and of the ocean. Varuna is the king of gods and men and the universe, and has unlimited knowledge.

Planetary symbols are no longer much used in astronomy, so Varuna never received a symbol in the astronomical literature. There is no standard symbol for Varuna used by astrologers either. Denis Moskowitz, a software engineer in Massachusetts who designed the symbols for most of the dwarf planets, proposed a symbol for Varuna (): it derives from the Devanagari