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gandharvān

gandharva as, m. a Gandharva [though in later times the Gandharva s are regarded as a class, yet in RV. rarely more than one is mentioned; he is designated as the heavenly Gandharva (divyag, RV. ix, 86, 36 and x, 139, 5 ), and is also called Viśvā-vasu ( RV. x, 85, 21 and 22 ; 139, 4 and 5 ) and Vāy

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1. غَندهَرثَ

gandharva as, m. a Gandharva [though in later times the Gandharva s are regarded as a class, yet in RV. rarely more than one is mentioned; he is designated as the heavenly Gandharva (divyag, RV. ix, 86, 36 and x, 139, 5 ), and is also called Viśvā-vasu ( RV. x, 85, 21 and 22 ; 139, 4 and 5 ) and Vāy

2. gāndharva

gāndharva mf(gāndharvī)n. belonging or relating to the Gandharva s (especially vivāha or vidhi, the form of marriage called after the Gandharva s which requires only mutual agreement, ĀśvGṛ. i, 6, 5 ; Mn. ; Yājñ. ; MBh. i , &c. ; cf. gandharvavivāha), RV. x, 80, 6 ; ŚBr. xiv &c.

3. gāndharva

relating to the Gandharva s as heavenly choristers ( cf. kalā, veda, &c.), MBh. ; Hariv. &c.

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Sanskrit corpus record built from GRETIL sources (citations and statistics; GRETIL running text is not redistributable). Passage text, where shown, from the Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (CC BY 4.0). Dictionary senses from Monier-Williams (1899, public domain), via the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries.