It's a Google translate, done when I had the entire rest of the chapter to do, so don't look too much into it. -.-
But it's 100% certain that Gandharva (and likely, most other Gandharva Nastika) is stronger than Varuna in or out of water. Gandharva was only weakened in N0, to clear up the toxic mist for his clan to live in the Sura realm.
Nastika in general are stronger than ALL Gods. Even Sagara (who her clan considers weak) is stronger than Agni. The goal of the Gods is the extinction of the Nastika race, so if there were a single God that was stronger than Nastika, then that God would have already annihilated all those Nastika over the billions of years. Varuna in particular is the God who has killed the most Sura, so she wouldn't have missed an opportunity, but Gandharva is still alive, and so are Makara and Urvasi, even his wife was alive until recently.
HOWEVER, the Gods attack in campaigns (see Agni congratulating God Kubera when God Kubera took their whole armies to fight against the Ananta. In fact, the campaign was annihilated, but God Kub
era somehow tricked Ananta and got Ananta to die). Either that or they resort to trickery (Shakuntala's kidnapping. Both Gandharva and the Ananta seem to think of the Gods as playing dirty). Also, the Gods are relentless: they just regenerate and attack again. Eventually they should be able to get lucky and wear down a Nastika from time to time. It's just like how even humans can bring down Rakshasa when they're working together.
To add to that, the Ananta clan seems to be in a difficult situation right now. They're already afraid to all get eaten by the Garuda clan at this point, so perhaps even an attack by Gods could make things harder.
Eventually, a 5-zen God can be stronger than a weaker Nastika in human form, as is the case with Sagara and the weakened Gandharva right now (then again, they're weaker than Rakshasa right now). However, when Gandharva was not weakened, he could take on Agni in even human form.
As for creating an Ocean, I suspect that it's got nothing to do with sheer power, but with the differences between Gods and Nastika. Varuna has jurisdiction over water, so perhaps she is able to extend her jurisdiction over to the Sura realm. Or perhaps it's a unique transcendental, or perhaps her "pure" water attributes makes the task easier for her (like how human magicians with triple-attributes get huge bonuses to spells of their attribute).
Edit: I went and found back the comment to chapter 99. Although it's also a Google Translate, I think it makes more sense:
"The ones pictured here are the first Nastika Kings (except Taraka) and the 5-zen Natural Gods.
The picture is drawn as though it were a 7vs7 match. In fact, due to the difference in skills, it couldn't even be a 1vs7, so such a match-up would be impossible...
Despite that, for the group on the left, there are 2 confirmed deaths (Ananta, Yaksha), one in a coma (Garuda) and one person weakened (Gandharva), while everyone in the group on the right is alive. The point is, being able to resurrect seems better than being strong."
I'm not sure about the second sentence, but I Think it means that a Nastika King can take on all seven 5-Zen Natural Gods at once. This makes sense, as no doubt, the 5-Zen Gods would have likely tried to kill the Kings off by attacking all at once, but no Nastika King has been confirmed killed by them (Ananta was killed by trickery, not battle. We don't know how Yaksha died though). What is pretty clear is that Gods don't match up to the higher-level Nastikas at all, but they have time and resurrection on their side...
Edited by Mizura, 25 November 2012 - 05:39 AM.