Rivers play an important role, deified as goddesses, most prominently the Sapta Sindhu and the Sarasvati River.
Two ships in the United States Navy have been named USS Varuna for Varuna, the Vedic god of oceans and rivers and keeper of the souls of the drowned.
Rigvedic rivers | Rigvedic deities | Hindu deities | Wrathful deities | Japan's traditional deities |