Apsaras
Americannoun
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Apsarases
plural
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Hindu Mythology. a supernatural female being, either the mistress of a soul in paradise or a succubus.
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a representation of such a being.
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Etymology
Origin of Apsaras
From Sanskrit
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"These are fragments of the Apsaras, the lower halves," she says, picking one up, then placing it in a hole in one of the slabs.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2012
The WMF's commission was for Sasha to recreate the Apsaras, with the aim of placing them on the roof of the restored gallery.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2012
In the later Vedic times they are represented as being fond of, and dangerous to, women; the Apsaras, apparently originally water-nymphs, being closely associated with them.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" by Various
Three months after, the Apsaras with Rambha-Devi at their head.
From Phallic Miscellanies Facts and Phases of Ancient and Modern Sex Worship, as Illustrated Chiefly in the Religions of India by Hargrave Jennings
The deities and Gandharvas and Apsaras in large bands began to sing and dance around him even as they sing and dance around the Grandsire Brahma.
From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 by Kisari Mohan Ganguli
Then spoke the saint, and swift obeyed Alambúshá, the fairest maid, And Miśrakeśí bright to view, Ramaṇá, Puṇḍríká too, And danced to him with graceful ease The dances of Apsarases.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith
He is, finally, restored to her by the Apsarases.
From Indian Fairy Tales by Anonymous
Daily the Apsarases, the dancing-girls in the court of Indra, wake him from death by touching his face with a golden wand, and make him dead again by touching him with a silver wand.
From Indian Fairy Tales by Anonymous
Then breathed a soft celestial breeze, Then danced the bright Apsarases, The minstrels and the Gods advanced, And warbling lutes the soul entranced.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith
Can these be the heavenly Apsarases, come in a body to fetch me away, as if I had fallen in battle?
From An Essence of the Dusk, 5th Edition by F. W. (Francis William) Bain
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