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गन्धर्ब्ब (gandharbba)

 
शब्दसागरः
English
गन्धर्ब्ब
m.
(-र्ब्बः)
1. A Gandharba 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.
गन्ध
smell, injury, &c. अर्ब्ब to go, affix अच् the final of गन्ध is reject-
ed
the root is also sometimes written with the dental letter अर्व्व,
when the compound will be गन्धर्व्व
the best authorities however
write it with the final labial letter as above.
Wilson
English
गन्धर्ब्ब
m.
(-र्ब्बः)
1 A Gandharba 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 Koïl or black cuckoo.
7 The sun.
8 A sage, a pious man.
E.
गन्ध smell, injury, &c. अर्ब्ब to go, affix अच्, the final
of गन्ध is rejected
the root is also sometimes written with the dental
letter अर्व्व, when the compound will be गन्धर्व्व
the best authorities
however write it with the final labial letter as above.