Gandharbba: 2 definitions
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryGandharbba (गन्धर्ब्ब).—m.
(-rbbaḥ) 1. A Gand'harba or celestial musician; these demigods inhabit Indra'S heaven, and form the orchestra at all the banquets of the principal deities. 2. A horse. 3. A kind of deer; according to some authorities, the musk-deer. 4. The soul after death, and previous to its being born again, corresponding, in some respects, to the western notion of ghosts. 5. A singer in general. 6. The Kokila or black cuckoo. 7. The sun. 8. A sage, a pious man. E. gandha smell, injury, &c. arbba to go, affix ac the a final of gandha is rejected; the root is also sometimes written with the dental letter arva, when the compound will be gandharva; the best authorities however write it with the final labial letter ba as above.
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Gāndharbba (गान्धर्ब्ब).—mfn.
(-rbbaḥ-rbbī-rbbaṃ) Relating or belonging to a Gand'herba. m.
(-rbbaḥ) A heavenly quirister: see gandharbbaṃ n. rbbaṃ 1. Song; sining. 2. A form of marriage, that which require only mutual and amorous agreement. E. gandharbba a Gand'herba, and aṇ aff.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English DictionaryGāndharbba (गान्धर्ब्ब):—(rbbaḥ) 1. m. A heavenly chorister. n. A song; form of marriage, requiring only mutual agreement. a. Belonging to a Gandharba.
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Starts with: Gandharbbahasta, Gandharbbaveda, Gandharbbavidya, Gandharbbavivaha.
Full-text: Gandharbbavidya, Gandharbbavivaha, Gandharbbaveda, Gandharbbahasta.
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