Do you see, father, I have found one here Holy, and fairer than the Apsaras. |
And, O perpetuator of the Kuru race, the principal Apsaras also commenced to dance. |
And thus he learnt that she had incurred the sin of spoiling the worship of Shiva, which the Apsaras had first taught the priest. |
They are apsaras, celestial beings who live in the sky, while our dull, ant-like forms struggle below. |
In another Indian tale, five Apsaras, or celestial dancers, are conveyed in an enchanted car to a pool in the forest. |
Some of the resulting works clearly echo organic, generally floral, motifs such as Apsaras, whose swelling blue and green quatrefoils swirl out from a central node. |