V A S 



V A S 



Weft, named Sulhnvatl ; which fee. He has alfo had a 

 terrel'trial incarnation, under the name of Samvarna. 



VARUNI, the confort of the Hindoo Neptune, who is 

 named Varuna ; which fee. As well as his confort, fhe 

 ; is faid to be his daughter ; a double relationftiip not un- 

 common with the gods both oi India and Greece. 



VARUS, or Varum Flumen, the Var, in Ancient Geo- 

 graphy, a river, which, in the time of Strabo aod Pliny, 

 i feparated the Gauls from Italy. 



VARUSA, a river of Italy, in Gallia Cifalpina, which 

 dilcharged itfelf into the Po, near the confluence of this 

 ; river with the Ticini. 



VARUTHA, a town of Afia, in the Greater Armenia. 

 Ptolemy. 



V^ARY, in Geography, a town of Hungary ; lo miles S. 

 of Munckacz. 



VARZEA, a town of Portugal, in the province of 

 Bc-ira ; 9 miles S.S.W. of Lamego. 



VARZESKOI, a lake of Ruffia, in the government of 

 Archangel ; 60 miles E. of Mezen. 



VARZY, a town of France, in the department of the 

 Nievre ; 7 miles S.S.W. of Clamecy. 



VAS, Vessel. See Vessel, Vesicula, and Angei- 



; OLOGY. 



Hence, in the ftyle of anatomifts, the vafa adipofa, prt- 

 farantia, &c. 



Vas Chyliferum, in Anatomy, the thoracic duft. See 



AliSORBENTS. 



Vas Deferens, the excretory tube of the teftis. See 



Gr.NERATION. 



Vara Brevia, the fliort arterial and venous ramifica- 

 ! tioiis proceeding from the fplenic trunks to the great end 

 ' of the ftomach. See Artery, and Vein. 

 ' Vasa Efferentia and Inferentla ; the latter are the lym- 

 phatic velTels, which enter an abforbing gland ; and the 

 I former, thofe which go out of it. See Absorbents. 



The tubes which pafs from the upper end of the tettis, 

 and unite to form the epididymis, are alfo called vafa 

 ' efterentia. See Generation. 



Vasa I.aUea, or Ven,z Laden, the abforbents which 

 take up the chyle from the fmall inteftine. See AssoRB- 

 '. ENTs, and Intestine. 



Vasa Vaforum, the veflels which belong to the coats of 

 I veffels. See Heart. 



Vasa Concordia:, in Hydraulics, are two veffels, fo con- 



' Itruftcd, as that one of them, though full of wine, will not 



I run a drop ; unlefs the other, being full of water, do run 



alfo. Their ftrufture and apparatus may be feen in Wolfius, 



I Element. Mathef. tom. ii. Hydraul. 



I Vasa, in Geography, a town of Turkeftan, on the Sirr ; 

 ; 70 miles W. of Taraz. 

 ' Vasa, or Wafa. See Wasa. 



i VASAGUDA, or VazagudA, in Ancient Geography, 



! a town of Africa, in Mauritania Casfarienfis. Ptol. 



1 VASANTA, in Hindoo Mythology, is the name of the 



j bofom friend of their Kama, god of love. Among the 



I Mahrattas and low people he is called Beffant, Beflent, 



I or BufTunt. He is a perfonification of the feafon of fpring ; 



and fongs in his honour are chanted by minltrels of both 



fexes at vernal and other feftivals. See under Kama for 



fome mention of his infeparable attendant. 



VASARHELY, in Geography, a town of Hungary, 

 on a fmall river, which runs mto the Theyffe ; 50 miles 

 N.N.W. ofTemefwar. N. lat. 46° 27'. E. long. 20° 33'. 

 — Alfo, a town of Hungary ; 23 miles E. of Cafchau — 

 Alfo, a town of Tranfylvania ; 40 mileS E. of Colofvar. 

 ». lat. 46° 37'. E. long. 25° 5'. 



VASARI, GiOBGIO, in Biography, was born at Arezzo 

 in 15 1 2, and was firft inftrufted in defign by a glafs-painter, 

 called II Prete Gallo, but afterwards, being taken to 

 Florence by the cardinal PafTerini, ftudicd under M. An- 

 gelo and Del Sarto. Another friendly cardinal conveyed 

 him to Rome, the cardinal Ippolito di Medici ; and under 

 his proteftion he acquired riches and honours. In Rome 

 he laboured affiduoudy, attaching himfelf particularly to 

 M. Angelo, of whom he appears, by feveral letters preferved 

 by Bottari, to have been very fincerely elleemed. He was 

 employed in feveral public works at Rome, both as a painter 

 and an architeft, particularly in the Vatican, in the Sala 

 della Cancellaria, where he painted, by the direftion of the 

 cardinal Farnefe, a feries of frefcoes, reprefenting the pnn- 

 cipal aftions of Paul III. ; and in the church of S. Gio- 

 vanni DicoUato, he painted for the principal altar the mar- 

 tyrdom of that faint, one of his moft highly cftcemed per- 

 formances. 



He was invited by Cofmo I. to Florence in 1553, and 

 employed by that prince as fuperintendant of the important 

 works then going on in the Palazzo Vecchio, where he 

 executed, with the help of numerous difciples, the decora- 

 tion of the principal apartments. Of his paintings there, 

 pope Clement VII. crowning the emperor Charles V. was 

 the moft important, and it was accompanied, in other com- 

 partments in the fame hall, by reprefentations of the aftions 

 of that monarch. 



There are many other works of Vafari fcattercd about 

 Italy, as at Bologna, Arezzo, and Rimini, &c. ; but after 

 all he was a tame copyift of Michael Angelo's manner, and 

 a very indifferent colourift. He is far more endeared to 

 us by his writings than his pidures. His work, entitled 

 " Lives of the moft excellent Painters, Sculptors, and 

 Architeas, from the Period of Cimabue till his own Time," 

 is the fountain of knowledge concerning the greater part 

 of them : and though in many points he appears to have 

 been too facile of belief, and to have related hiftories with- 

 out fufTicient inquiry into their correftnefs, yet upon the 

 whole the world is indebted to him for an ingenious and 

 ufeful work ; without which, the hiftory of the art would 

 not now have been fo diftinttly underftood, nor the pro- 

 fefTion fo juftly known and honoured. It was lirft pub- 

 lifhed at Florence, in two volumes, in 1550, and afterwards 

 repubhftied with confiderable additions, and heads engraved 

 in woo* of moit of the artifls mentioned, in 1568, and has 

 fince been re-edited with copious notes by Bottari. Vafari 

 died at Florence in 1576, at the age of 64. 



VASAVA, in Mythology, a name of the Hindoo god 

 Indra ; which fee. 



VASBARIA, in Ancient Geography, a town of Africa, m 

 the interior of Mauritania Csfarienfis. Ptolemy. 



VASBUHL, in Geography, a town of the duchy of 

 Wurzburg ; 4 miles N.E. of Arnflein. 



VASCO, or Vasiorum Civitas, in Ancient Geography, 

 a town of Gallia Narbonnenfis, according to Ptolemy and 

 Pliny. 



VASCONES, a people of Hifpania Citerior, at the 

 foot of the Pyrenees. Thefe people, who in later times 

 pafled into Gaul, where they affumed the name of Gafeons, 

 lay to the eaft of the Cantabri, in the country now called 

 Navarre: and they extended from the Pyrenees as far as 

 the Iberus towards the fouth. Their principal towns were 

 Pompelo, Calaguris, and Graccuris. 



VASCULAR, Vascularis, in Anatomy, is applied 

 to any thing confifting of divers veffels, veins, arteries, 



We fay, the vafcular and valvular texture of the lungs. 

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