Definitions for "Apsaras"
The dancing girls of heaven, wives of Gandharvas, sometimes engaged by Indra to distract yogis from their meditations.
The Apsarases are the celebrated nymphs or Indra's heaven. The name which signifies "moving in the water" has some analogy to that of Aprodite (see ... more
Sanskrit word for female celestial nymphs. In Hindu art these seductive dancers and musicians of the gods are usually represented standing in trees; in Buddhist art they are angelic beings, often winged.