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		In Hinduism, the Gandharvas (Sanskrit: à¤—à¤à¤§à¤°à¥à¤µ, gandharva) are male nature spirits, husbands of the Apsarases.
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	Gandharvas
		The `heavenly Gandharva' of the Veda was a deity who knew and revealed the secrets of heaven and divine truths in general.
		The Gandharvas generally had their dwelling in the sky or atmosphere, and one of their offices was to prepare the heavenly soma juice for the gods.
		The Gandharvas of later times are similar in character; they have charge of the soma, are skilled in medicine, regulate the asterisms, and are fond of women.
	www.mythfolklore.net /india/encyclopedia/gandharva.htm (463 words)

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	Gandharvas – Music at Last.fm (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Gandharvas are a Canadian rock band from London, Ontario.
		The band formed in 1989 as the London Droogs and in 1993 changed their name to The Gandharvas.
		Gandharvas isn’t yet available to play on Last.fm radio.
	www.last.fm /music/Gandharvas (632 words)

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		GANDHARVA The `heavenly Gandharva’ of the Veda was a deity who knew and revealed the secrets of heaven and divine truths in general.
		The Atharva-veda speaks of “the 6333 Gandharvas.” The Gandharvas of later times are similar in character; they have charge of the soma, are skilled in medicine, regulate the asterisms, and are fond of women.
		Chitra-ratha was chief of the Gandharvas; and the Apsarases were their wives or mistresses.
	www.mypurohith.com /Encyclopedia/EnclopG.asp (2025 words)

	Gandharvas
		The Gandharvas were spirits of the air, forests, and mountains; they were the mates of the Apsaras.
		If the hero was victorious, the Gandharva would help the hero on his quest, but if the hero lost, he would be carried away, never to be heard from again.
		The Gandharvas were also the protectors of Soma, which they guarded with jealous intent.
	www.pantheon.org /mythica/articles/g/gandharvas.html (163 words)

	Hinduism 101 - The Hindu Pantheon - Part Two. - free Suite101.com course
		The first Gandharva had knowledge of divine truths and was appointed by the Gods to prepare and be guardian of the celestial soma juice.
		Gandharvas are supposed to have splendid cities of their own somewhere in the universe but they are usually found in Indra’s heaven Vaikunth.
		The Gandharvas are known to haunt the air, forests and mountains of the earth.
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	The Mahabharata, Book 3: Vana Parva: Ghosha-yatra Parva: Section CCXLIII
		And as Gandharvas were being thus slaughtered by the mighty warriors with their celestial weapons, they rose up to the skies, taking with them the sons of Dhritarashtra.
		And as the Gandharvas were being slaughtered by the illustrious son of Pandu, they began to shower from the skies a heavy downpour of shafts upon Arjuna, who was on the surface of the earth.
		And when the chief of the Gandharvas saw that he was checked by the illustrious Arjuna with those weapons of his he entirely disappeared from sight by help of his powers of illusion.
	www.sacred-texts.com /hin/m03/m03243.htm (797 words)

	Sarangi: Sarangi is the most important bowed string musical instrument in Nepalese music tradition. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The elders among the new generation Gandharvas recall the time ‘when fairies danced to the tune of the songs and the Harbaja played by the Gandharvas'.
		Gandharvas, since the immemorial, have been recognized as the musician caste of Nepalese society.
		In a land where education was the prerogative of the favoured few, the Gandharvas had played an immense role in the preservation and propagation of nepali folklore.
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	Gandharvas - Kicking In the Water (review #1) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Gandharvas' second release is truly a work of art.
		The Gandharvas thoroughly defy categorization, but if pressed I would say that their music is alternative, in the purest sense of the word.
		The Gandharvas have described their music as "pain disguised as fun", and for the most part that's a pretty accurate description.
	members.tripod.com /~fadinghalo/gandharvas_kicking.html (248 words)

	Live Review: The Gandharvas / the Smokin' Frogs, the Starfish Room, September 24, 1997
		With this show, Eastern Canadian band the Gandharvas proved to be not only kicking in the water, these days, but riding a tidal wave reception.
		The band proved that 90's style is anything you want it to be, and their sound combination extended to costume, featuring a tropical-shirted lead singer, a silver-sequined bassist, and a ball-capped DJ in the background.
		Unlike members of the Smokin' Frogs, who visited with fans and danced in the crowd, not all members of the Gandharvas could be found milling about ground level post performance.
	dropd.com /issue/74/Gandharvas (570 words)

	Fairy and Fairy Tale - MSN Encarta
		In ancient Greek literature the sirens in Homer's Odyssey are fairies, and a number of the heroes in his Iliad have fairy lovers in the form of nymphs.
		The Gandharvas (celestial singers and musicians), who figure in Sanskrit poetry, were fairies, as were the Hathors, or female genii, of ancient Egypt, who appeared at the birth of a child and predicted the child's future.
		Croker has described fairies as being “a few inches high, airy and almost transparent in body; so delicate in their form that a dewdrop, when they chance to dance on it, trembles, indeed, but never breaks.” In folklore fairies are generally considered beneficent toward humans.
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	Gandharvas
		"Gandharvas" is part of a series of stories aimed at ultimately being a novel or two.
		Much of the mysticisim in "Gandharvas", including the title, was inspired by the Tibetan Book of the Dead.
		On the planet Gandharva the night was silent save for the rustle of leaves stirred by the breeze, and the scurry of small animals.
	www.dahoudek.com /Stories/Gandharvas.htm (6283 words)

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		The greatly strong Gandharva was inflamed with wrath by hearing the noise.
		Having fainted away by the force of the weapon, the greatly powerful Gandharva was falling headlong downwards from his chariot.
		Arjuna refused to be obliged by the Gandharva.
	www.ashram.org /satsang_eng/eternal_youth/page18.html (887 words)

	The Gandharvas - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Gandharvas are a Canadian rock band from London, Ontario.
		Their name comes from Gandharvas, musical spirits in Hinduism.
		In 1994 they were signed to the Watch Music label and released A Soap Bubble and Inertia.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/The_Gandharvas (105 words)

	To The Rescue of Duryodhana
		Duryodhana and some of his companions were taken prisoners by the gandharvas.
		Apart from this, they and we are one family in the face of an enemy from outside." So saying, he asked his brothers to save the Kauravas.
		Accordingly, they attacked the gandharvas, fought with them and made them set the Kauravas free.
	www.freeindia.org /biographies/greatlkings/yudhishtira/page14.htm (176 words)

	The Sampradaya Sun - Independent Vaisnava News - Editorials - The Mahabharata - Chaitraratha Parva
		O Gandharva, this sacred Ganga again, flowing through the celestial region is called there the Alakananda, It hath again in the region of the Pitris become the Vaitarani, difficult of being crossed by sinners, and, Krishna-Dwaipayana himself hath said so.
		I think, O Gandharva, that ye are superior (in prowess) to men; therefore shall I fight with thee, using celestial weapons and not with any crooked means.
		Deprived of consciousness by the force of that weapon, the mighty Gandharva was falling, head downward, from his chariot.
	harekrsna.com /sun/editorials/mahabharata/mahabharata172.htm (2038 words)

	VNN Editorial - Kamada Ekadasi From The Varaha Purana
		His arms were eight miles long, his mouth was as big as a huge cave, his eyes were as awesome as the sun and moon, his nostrils resembled enormous pits in the earth, his neck was a veritable mountain, his hips were four miles wide, and his gigantic body stood a full sixty-four miles high.
		Thus poor Lalita, the loving Gandharva singer, had to suffer the reaction of his offense against King Pundarika.
		Instead of enjoying life as a Gandharvas wife, she had to wander everywhere in the thick jungle with her monstrous husband, who had fallen completely under the spell of the king's curse and was wholly engaged in terrible sinful activities.
	www.vnn.org /editorials/ET0004/ET15-5857.html (1269 words)

	Gods, Demigods and Incarnations
		For the gandharvas it involves mostly singing, for apsaras it involves mostly dancing.
		This is the same activity the gandharvas are performing by singing.
		The first is the manushya gandharvas - or human gandharvas, and the second is the deva gandharvas - or heavenly gandharvas.
	www.indiadivine.org /hinduism/articles/13/1/Gods-Demigods-and-Incarnations (5980 words)

	AfghanHindu.com - Afghan Hindu Association
		For the Aryans Afghanistan was the land of the Gandharvas or the celestial beings.
		The Gandharvas were depicted in the Vedic scriptures as celestial beings, skillful in music, with magical powers, and beautiful forms.
		In status they were not equal to the devas, but regarded as higher beings with divine powers, mischievous at times, but mostly friendly and reliable.
	www.afghanhindu.com /vedic.asp (2145 words)

	Beetles as Religious Symbols, Cultural Entomology Digest 2
		Gandharvas is close to the Greek word kantharos, (for the scarab and Dionysos' cup), and Soma might be related to wine.
		The French mythologist Georges Dumézil has compared the name Gandharvas with those of centaurs, which is also close to kantharos.
		Centaurs and Gandharvas seem more or less equivalent; minor deities related to sacred drunkenness, and possibly both of shamanic ancestry.
	www.insects.org /ced2/beetles_rel_sym.html (4246 words)

	SRIMAD BHAGAVATAM: CANTO 5 - CHAPTER 21
		Gandharvas, Apsaras, Nâgas, Yakshas, Râkshasas and the demigods, thus one by one in seven groups of two, every month worship the most powerful sungod Sûrya, who is the life of the universe and who carries different names depending on the different ceremonies (
		Similarly, fourteen other saints, Gandharvas, Apsaras, Nâgas, Yakshas, Râkshasas and demigods, who are divided into groups of two, assume different names every month and continuously perform different ritualistic ceremonies to worship the Supreme Lord as the most powerful demigod Sûryadeva, who holds many names.
		Thus does the sungod traverse the 95.1 million yojanas of the circumference of the earthly sphere with a speed of two thousand and half a yojana in about a kshana (± 1,6 sec; see verse 12).
	www.srimadbhagavatam.org /canto5/chapter21.html (2622 words)

	The Pandavas wed Draupadi - Indian Mythology (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Nowhere is it mentioned that the river belong to the Gandharvas.
		When the Gandharva heard these taunting words of the Pandava, he drew forth his bow and let go a volley of arrows upon the party.
		The Gandharva's chariot was burnt in a second and he lost consciousness by the force of that weapon and fell down senseless.
	members.cox.net /apamnapat/articles/Mahabharata012.html (2637 words)

	The Upanishads, Part II (SBE15): Taittirîyaka-Upanishad: II, 8
		One hundred times that bliss of human Gandharvas is one measure of the bliss of divine Gandharvas (genii), and likewise of a great sage who is free from desires.
		One hundred times that bliss of divine Gandharvas is one measure of the bliss of the Fathers, enjoying their long estate, and likewise of a great sage who is free from desires.
		One hundred times that bliss of the Fathers is one measure of the bliss of the Devas, born in the Âgâna heaven (through the merit of their lawful works), (3) and likewise of a great sage who is free from desires.
	www.sacred-texts.com /hin/sbe15/sbe15041.htm (936 words)

	Gandharvas spirits of the forests and mountains Gandharvas in Hinduism
		Gandharvas spirits of the forests and mountains Gandharvas in Hinduism
		Gandharvas mates of the apsaras, spirits of the air and forests
		The Gandharvas were the mates of the Apsaras, and are considered spirits of the air, forests, and mountains.
	www.siamese-dream.com /reference/gandharvas.html (234 words)

	Hinduism Today \| May 1988
		"Gandharvas" are "celestial musicians." The Vedas depict them variously as tall and handsome, small and elfish or even beast-like.
		According to Benjamin Walker, author of Hindu World, these gandharvas are the guardians of the knowledge of the "mysteries of medicine, healing and the heavenly bodies."
		Maharishi claims that the gandharvas' special healing knowledge was part and parcel of their music.
	www.hinduismtoday.com /archives/1988/05/1988-05-01.shtml (393 words)

	Hindu Books Universe - Content
		She is a great danger to the people of the city and the members of the royal house hold, for the gandharvas may stop at nothing in their jealous anger.
		The gandharvas would be very grateful to King Virata and his kingdom.
		Whether grateful or not, the gandharvas could be deadly if irritated and Sudeshna was too afraid of Draupadi to refuse her request.
	www.hindubooks.org /dynamic/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=438 (212 words)

	The Mahabharata, Book 3: Vana Parva: Ghosha-yatra Parva: Section CCXXXIX
		And when those rangers of the sky found that the warriors of Dhritarashtra along with their king could not be stopped by words they all went to their king Chitrasena and represented everything unto him.
		And when Chitrasena, the king of the Gandharvas, came to know all this he became filled with rage, alluding to the Kuru, and commanded his followers saying, 'Punish these wretches of wicked behaviour.' And, O Bharata, when the Gandharvas were so commanded by Chitrasena, they rushed weapons in hand, towards the Dhritarashtra ranks.
		The Gandharvas, at last, afflicted with the shafts of the Kuru army, seemed to be exhausted.
	www.ibiblio.org /sripedia/ebooks/mb/m03/m03239.htm (870 words)

	The Hindu : Magazine / Focus : The Buddha at Thanjavur
		The gandharvas are depicted on the upper part of the frieze.
		Behind them are the gandharvas, also in a posture of supplication.
		A gandharva in front of the temple carries a lingam on his head, This depiction, I learn, is a repetition of the story narrated in the murals on the north face of the inner courtyard.
	www.hindu.com /mag/2004/10/10/stories/2004101000610700.htm (898 words)

	Sambhava Parva Section 65
		And, O bull in the Bharata race, the Danavas, Rakshasas and Gandharvas and Snakes, could not slay the incarnate celestials even in their infancy, so strong they were.'
		Anavadya Manu, Vansa, Asura, Marganapria, Anupa, Subhaga, Vasi, were the daughters brought forth by Pradha, Siddha, and Purna, and Varhin, and Purnayus of great fame, Brahmacharin, Ratiguna, and Suparna who was the seventh; Viswavasu, Bhanu, and Suchandra who was the tenth, were also the sons of Pradha.
		The Brahmanas, kine, Gandharvas, and Apsaras, were born of Kapila as stated in the Purana.
	www.earth-history.com /India/Mahab1/m01066.htm (925 words)

	Ajanta Caves-Gandharvas-Chaitya-Grihas
		Everything including the contemporary people, kings, slaves, women, men and children are seen in the Ajanta wall paintings interlaced with flowers, plants, fruits, birds and beasts.
		There are also the figures of yakshas, kinneras (half human and half bird) gandharvas (divine musicians), apsaras (heavenly dancers), which were of concern to the people of that time.
		The total number of caves including the unfinished one is thirty of which five (9, 10, 19, 26 and 29) are Chaitya-Grihas and the rest are Sangharamas or Viharas (monasteries).
	www.maharashtratourism.net /caves/ajanta-caves.html (165 words)

	Four Kings
		His helmet is often shown as being mde from the skin of elephant's head.
		Dhritirastra, (literally, 'Guardian of the Nation'), lord of the east, is the king of the Gandharvas, celestial musicians and feeders on fragrance.
		He is often depicted holding a sword and a stringed musical instrument (representing the Gandharvas).
	www.tientai.net /teachings/dharma/6realms/4kings.htm (632 words)

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