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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Gandharvapura (गन्धर्वपुर).—the city of the Gandharvas, an imaginary city in the sky, probably the result of some natural phenomenon, such as mirage; गन्धर्वनगराकारं तथैवान्तर्हितं पुनः (gandharvanagarākāraṃ tathaivāntarhitaṃ punaḥ) Mahābhārata (Bombay) 1.126.35.

Derivable forms: gandharvapuram (गन्धर्वपुरम्).

Gandharvapura is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms gandharva and pura (पुर). See also (synonyms): gandharvanagara.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1) Gandharvapura (गन्धर्वपुर):—[=gandharva-pura] [from gandharva] n. (= -nagara) the city of the Gandharvas, [Kathāsaritsāgara]

2) [v.s. ...] Fata Morgana, [Varāha-mihira’s Bṛhat-saṃhitā; Bhāgavata-purāṇa v.]

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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Partial matches: Pura, Gandharva.

Full-text: Gandharvanagara, Avantipura, Khapura, Gandharva.

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