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Vara Definition from Arts & Humanities Dictionaries & Glossaries
Vara Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(n.)
A Spanish measure of length equal to about one yard. The vara now in use equals 33.385 inches.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutA Spanish measure of length equal to about one yard. The vara now in use equals 33.385 inches.
vara
\va"ra\ (?), n. [sp. see 1st vare.] a spanish measure of length equal to about one yard. the vara now in use equals 33.385 inches. 's cyc.
vara
n : a spanish unit of length (about a yard) having different values in different localities
similar words(1)
tibia vara
Noun
1. a Spanish unit of length (about a yard) having different values in different localities
(hypernym) linear unit
Vara Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Vara or VARA may refer to:
Places
- Vara Parish, municipality in Tartu County, Estonia
- Vara, Estonia, village in Vara Parish, Tartu County, Estonia
- Vara Municipality, a municipality in western Sweden
- Vara, Sweden, a town in Sweden
- Vara (river), in Liguria, Italy
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Vara Definition from Religion & Spirituality Dictionaries & Glossaries
Vara (Avestan) War (Pahlavi) Baru (Persian) An enclosure, vehicle; the ark or argha of the Avesta. In the Vendidad, after Yima enlarged the earth three times, he assembled the excellent mortals and gods. Yima was instructed to make a vara two miles long on every side, and to bring there the seeds of sheep, animals, men, fires, and plants: "Thither thou shalt bring the seeds of every kind of tree, of the greatest, best, and finest kinds on this earth; thither thou shalt bring the seeds of every kind of fruit, the fullest of food and sweetest of odour. All those seeds shalt thou bring, two of every kind, to be kept inexhaustible there, so long as those men shall stay in the Vara" (Farg. 2:28).
The similarity of this allegory to Hebrew and certain Hindu writings is obvious, and from the standpoint of humanity on earth, "Those 'men' in the 'Vara' are the 'Progenitors,' the heavenly men or Dhyani, the future Egos who are commissioned to inform mankind. For 'Vara,' or the 'Ark' (or again the Vehicle) simply means man. . . .
". . . Vara meant the man of the Fourth Round, as much as the Earth of those days, the moon, and even Noah's ark, if one will so have it . . ." (SD 2:291-2). See also KARSHIPTA
Vara (Sanskrit) [from the verbal root vri to choose] Superior, choice, excellent.
The similarity of this allegory to Hebrew and certain Hindu writings is obvious, and from the standpoint of humanity on earth, "Those 'men' in the 'Vara' are the 'Progenitors,' the heavenly men or Dhyani, the future Egos who are commissioned to inform mankind. For 'Vara,' or the 'Ark' (or again the Vehicle) simply means man. . . .
". . . Vara meant the man of the Fourth Round, as much as the Earth of those days, the moon, and even Noah's ark, if one will so have it . . ." (SD 2:291-2). See also KARSHIPTA
Vara (Sanskrit) [from the verbal root vri to choose] Superior, choice, excellent.
