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apsaras

ap-saras See s.v.

ap-sarás ās [[RV.]; [AV.] &c.], or ap-sarā́ [[AV.] &c.], f. (fr. 2. áp + √ sṛ), ‘going in the waters or between the waters of the clouds’, a class of female divinities (sometimes called ‘nymphs’; they inhabit the sky, but often visit the earth; they are the wives of the Gandharvas (q.v.) and have the faculty of changing their shapes at will; they are fond of the water; one of their number, Rambhā, is said to have been produced at the churning of the ocean).