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Identifier: indianmythlegend00inmack Title: Indian myth and legend Year: 1913 (1910s) Authors: Mackenzie, Donald Alexander, 1873-1936 Subjects: Hindu mythology Publisher: London, Gresham Contributing Library: Indiana University Digitizing Sponsor: Indiana University
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Text Appearing After Image: C/2 < I ^ ^ < M-3 U wh A, ^ DEMONS AND GIANTS AND FAIRIES 69 away, like the Teutonic elves and dwarfs. The Gand-harvas are renowned musicians and bards and singers.When they play on their divine instruments the fairy-like Apsaras, who are all females, dance merrily. In thevarious Aryan heavens these elves and fairies delight andallure with music and song and dance the gods, and thesouls of those who have attained to a state of bliss. TheApsara dancing girls are voluptuous and beautiful, andinspire love in Paradise as well as upon earth. Theirlovers include gods, Gandharvas, and mortals. Arjuna,the human son of Indra, who was transported in a Celes-tial chariot to Swarga over Suravithi, the Milky Way,was enchanted by the music and songs and dances of theCelestial elves and fairies. He followed bands of Gand-harvas who were skilled in music sacred and profane,and he saw the bewitching Apsaras, including the notori-ous Menaka, with eyes like lotus blooms, employed inenticing hearts
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