Vana

Vana may refer to the following :

Places

• Vana, Gujarat, a village on Saraushtra peninsula, wesetrn India
• Vana State, a former princley state with seat in the above town
• Vana, Iran, a village in Mazandaran Province, Iran

Fiction and Mythology

• Vána — a fictional character from J R R Tolkien's legendarium
• The Vanir — a family of gods in Norse mythology

Other

• The Hawaiian name for the sea urchin (also spelled as wana)
• Van or Vana, meaning Forest in Sanskrit, Hindi and many Indian languages, giving rise to terms like Vana Parva (the Episode of Forest) in the epic Ramayana
• D-alanine—(R)-lactate ligase, an enzyme

See also

• Váňa