gandharva

[Swaminathan Madhuresan]

 Check the archives, may be useful. Sure Sanskritists would have
 collected material and written about gandharvas, the heavenly musicians,
 accompanied by the apsaraas. Khmer temples have sculptures of apsaraas
 and gandharvas.

 South Indian temples have gandhrvas too, for instance, check the
 book encyclopaedia of indian temple architecture, (M. W. Meister),
 the eary phase of soth indian temples. Chalukya temples such as
 Aihole, Pattadakkal have gandharva males flying thru' the air.

 Incidentally, the gandharva angel depictions show that Indians
 lacked the knowledge on the fundamentals of flying.


--- Sylvia and Elmar Stapelfeldt <Stapelfeld at AOL.COM> wrote:
> Could anbody help me with the etymology of gandharva? Is there any symbol for
> them? Where can I find carvings or paintings depicting them? Or is there any
> further valuable information?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Elmar Stapelfeldt


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