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gandharva: masculine vocative singular stem: gandharva

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Word	Reference	Gender	Number	Synonyms

aśvaḥ	2.8.44	Masculine	Singular	‍saptiḥ, gandharvaḥ, vājī, turagaḥ, saindhavaḥ, arvā, turaṅgam, ghoṭakaḥ, ghoड़ा, hayaḥ, vāhaḥ, turaṅgaḥ

vyāghrapucchaḥ	2.2.50	Masculine	Singular	vyaḍambakaḥ, pañcāṅgulaḥ, rucakaḥ, gandharvahastakaḥ, varddhamānaḥ, cañcuḥ, erubūkaḥ, maṇḍaḥ, citrakaḥ, eraṇḍaḥ

Monier-Williams Search

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gandharva

m. a gandharva- [though in later times the gandharva-s are regarded as a class, yet in

rarely more than one is mentioned;he is designated as the heavenly gandharva-(divy/a g-

),and is also called viśvā-vasu-(

)and vāyu-keśa- (in plural

);his habitation is the sky, or the region of the air and the heavenly waters(

);his especial duty is to guard the heavenly soma-(

) , which the gods obtain through his intervention(

; see

);it is obtained for the human race by indra-, who conquers the gandharva- and takes it by force(

);the heavenly gandharva- is supposed to be a good physician, because the soma- is considered as the best medicine;possibly, however, the word soma- originally denoted not the beverage so called, but the moon, and the heavenly gandharva- may have been the genius or tutelary deity of the moon;in one passage(

) the heavenly gandharva- and the soma- are identified;he is also regarded as one of the genii who regulate the course of the Sun's horses (

; see

);he knows and makes known the secrets of heaven and divine truths generally (

);he is the parent of the first pair of human beings, yama- and yamī-(

) , and has a peculiar mystical power over women and a right to possess them(

);for this reason he is invoked in marriage ceremonies(

);ecstatic states of mind and possession by evil spirits are supposed to be derived from the heavenly gandharva-(see -gṛhīta-, -graha-);the gandharva-s as a class have the same characteristic features as the one gandharva-;they live in the sky(

) , guard the soma-(

),are governed by varuṇa- (just as the āpsarasa-s are governed by soma-)

,know the best medicines(

),regulate the course of the asterisms(

;hence twenty-seven are mentioned

),follow after women and are desirous of intercourse with them(

);as soon as a girl becomes marriageable, she belongs to soma-, the gandharva-s, and agni-(

);the wives of the gandharva-s are the āpsarasa-s(see gandharvāpsar/as-),and like them the gandharva-s are invoked in gambling with dice(

);they are also feared as evil beings together with the rākṣasa-s, kimīdin-s, piśāca-s, etc., amulets being worn as a protection against them(

);they are said to have revealed the veda-s to vāc-(

; see

),and are called the preceptors of the ṛṣi-s(

); purūravas- is called among them(

);in epic poetry the gandharva-s are the celestial musicians or heavenly singers(see

)who form the orchestra at the banquets of the gods, and they belong together with the āpsarasa-s to indra-'s heaven, sharing also in his battles(

etc.; see

);in the more systematic mythology the gandharva-s constitute one of the classes into which the higher creation is divided(id est gods, manes, gandharva-s

;or gods, asura-s, gandharva-s, men

; see

;or gods, men, gandharva-s, āpsarasa-s, sarpa-s, and manes

;for other enumerations see

[

]

etc.);divine and human gandharva-s are distinguished(

;the divine or deva-gandharva-s are enumerated

);another passage names 11 classes of gandharva-s(

);the chief or leader of the gandharva-s is named citra-ratha-(

);they are called the creatures of prajāpati-(

) or of brahmā-(

) or of kaśyapa- (

) or of the muni-s(

) or of prādhā-(

) or of ariṣṭā-(

)or of vāc-(

);with jaina-s the gandharva-s constitute one of the eight classes of the vyantara-s]

gandharva

m. Name of the attendant of the 17th arhat- of the present avasarpiṇī-

gandharva

m. a singer

gandharva

m. the Koil or black cuckoo

gandharva

m. a sage, pious man

gandharva

m. a horse

gandharva

m. see

gandharva

m. the musk deer (derived fr. gandha-)

gandharva

m. the soul after death and previous to its being born again (corresponding in some respects to the western notion of a ghost)

gandharva

m. Name of the 14th kalpa- or period of the world

gandharva

m. of the 21st muhūrta-

gandharva

m. of a svara- or tone (for gāndhāra-?)

gandharva

m. plural the gandharva-s (See above)

gandharva

m. Name of a people (named together with the gāndhāra-s)

gandharva

m. night

gandharva

([ confer, compare Greek fr. .])

Bloomfield Vedic
Concordance

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gandharva	itthā padam asya rakṣati RV.9.83.4a; AB.1.22.3; Aś.4.7.4. P: gandharva itthā śś.5.10.25.

gandharva	prāyaścitte tvaṃ devānāṃ prāyaścittir asi PG.1.11.2.

Vedabase Search

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gandharva	among the inhabitants of Gandharvaloka	SB 8.8.19

gandharva	belonging to the Gandharvaloka	SB 4.27.13

gandharva	by Gandharvas	SB 10.76.6

gandharva	by the denizens of Gandharvaloka	SB 8.4.13

gandharva	by the Gandharva soldiers	SB 4.28.10

gandharva	by the Gandharvas	SB 4.28.6

		SB 8.9.4

gandharva	by the residents of Gandharvaloka	SB 5.1.8

gandharva	Gandharvas	SB 11.12.3-6

gandharva	heavenly musicians	SB 11.2.23

gandharva	inhabitants of Gandharvaloka	SB 4.20.35-36

		SB 5.25.7

gandharva	inhabitants of the Gandharva planet	SB 4.1.22

		SB 4.18.17

gandharva	of the Gandharvas	BG 11.22

gandharva	of the inhabitants of Gandharvaloka	SB 7.15.71

gandharva	residents of Gandharvaloka	CC Adi 10.19

gandharva	the celestial musicians	SB 3.20.38

gandharva	the denizens of Gandharvaloka	SB 4.24.12

gandharva	the expert artisans in the higher planets	SB 3.10.28-29

gandharva	the Gandharvas	SB 4.1.54-55

		SB 6.12.34

		SB 7.4.5-7

		SB 8.20.19

gandharva	the human beings named Gandharvas	SB 2.1.36

gandharva	the inhabitants of Gandharva-loka	SB 7.4.14

gandharva	the inhabitants of Gandharvaloka	CC Adi 13.106

		CC Antya 2.10

gandharva	the inhabitants of Gandharvaloka (appointed singers in the planets of the demigods)	SB 5.5.21-22

gandharva	the residents of Gandharvaloka	SB 2.6.43-45

		SB 7.8.37-39

		SB 8.20.20

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gandharva	noun (masculine) a Gandharva (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988)) a horse a sage (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988)) a singer (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988)) the Koel or black cuckoo (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988)) Frequency rank 454/72933

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gandharva	celestial musicians; heavenly singers.

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