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‖ upsara Indian Mythol.|ˈʌpsʌra|
Also apsaras.
[Hindi apsarā, f. Skr. apsarās.]
A celestial nymph, one of the wives of the Gandharvas (heavenly minstrels).
[1846J. T. Thompson Dict. Hindee & Eng. 17/2 Upsura.., a female dancer or courtezan in Swurg, the hindoo paradise.] 1865[see Vedaic adj. s.v. Veda]. 1879J. Dowson Class. Dict. Hindu Mythol. & Relig. 20 The Apsarases..are fairylike beings... They are the rewards in Indra's paradise held out to heroes who fall in battle. 1892Kipling Barrack-Room Ballads 105 Above the dark Upsaras flew, beneath us plashed the blood. 1932F. M. Atkinson tr. H. de Wilman-Grabowska in J. Hackin et al. Asiatic Mythol. 113 The Apsarases are the recognized courtesans of the sky. 1968B. Walker Hindu World II. 143 In Hindu mythology the celestial nymph or apsarā (ap-sara, wet-flow) is a personificiation of the mists or clouds in the form of a beauteous damsel. |