Apsarasa, Apsarasā: 5 definitions
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchĀpsarasa (आप्सरस):—adj. f. ī von einer Apsaras stammend: kanyā [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 6, 4, 16.]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer FassungĀpsarasa (आप्सरस):——
1) Adj. (f. ī) von einer Apsaras stammend. —
2) n. Name eines Sāman [Ārṣeyabrāhmaṇa]
Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.
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Starts with: Apsarasagana.
Ends with: Pancapsarasa.
Full-text (+65): Apsaras, Apsarapati, Apsarastirtha, Apsarahpati, Manjughosha, Manobhava, Madanapriya, Klanda, Shobhavati, Ayushmatya, Mrigava, Gandharvapsaras, Manorama, Subhumika, Sparshananda, Shvavati, Bhirava, Varhaya, Upadevata, Vaditroka.
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Rig Veda (translation and commentary) (by H. H. Wilson)
Women in the Atharva-veda Samhita (by Pranab Jyoti Kalita)
2. Goddess Apsarases < [Chapter 4 - Female Deities and the Glorification of Women in the Atharvaveda]
6c. Hymns to Arouse the Passionate Love of a Woman < [Chapter 2 - The Strīkarmāṇi Hymns of the Atharvaveda]
The Curse of Urvasi < [June 1946]
Asvaghosha < [April – June, 2002]
"Prabhu Devara Ragale" < [April 1940]
Garga Samhita (English) (by Danavir Goswami)
Verse 4.19.77 < [Chapter 19 - A Thousand Names of Srī Yamunā]
Verse 6.1.33 < [Chapter 1 - Jarāsandha’s Defeat]
Verse 4.15.3 < [Chapter 15 - The Story of the Women of Barhiṣmatī-pura, the Apsarās, and the Women of Sutala and Nāgendra]
The Vishnu Purana (by Horace Hayman Wilson)
Chapter XXI - Families of the Daityas < [Book I]
Chapter X - Names of the twelve Adityas < [Book II]
Chapter IX - Legend of Lakshmi < [Book I]
Natyashastra (English) (by Bharata-muni)