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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 231 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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APSARAS  , in

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Hindu
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mythology, a
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female spirit of the clouds and
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waters . In the Rig-Veda there is one Apsaras, wife of
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Gandharva; in the later scriptures there are many Apsaras who
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act as the handmaidens of
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Indra and
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dance before his
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throne . They are able to
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change their
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form, and specially
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rule over the fortunes of gaming . One of their duties is to
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guide to
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paradise the heroes who fall in
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battle, whose wives they then become . They are distinguished as daivika (" divine ") or laukika (" worldly ") .

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