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गन्धर्वनगर (gandharvanagara)

 
Monier Williams Cologne
English
गन्धर्व—नगर
n.
 ‘Gandharva-city’, an imaginary town in the sky,
MBh.
 ii, 1043
Hariv.
R.
 v
&c.
Fata Morgana,
Pāṇ.
 iv, 1, 3
Kār.
VarBṛS.
 xxx
xxxvi, 4
BhP.
 v, 14, 5
Kād.
the city of the Gandharva people,
R.
 vii.
Apte Hindi
Hindi
गन्धर्वनगरम्
नपुं*
 गन्धर्व-नगरम् -
"गन्धर्वों का नगर, आकाश में एक काल्पनिक नगर"
Shabdartha Kaustubha
Kannada
गन्धर्वनगर
पदविभागः - > नपुंसकलिङ्गः
कन्नडार्थः - > ಗಂಧರ್ವರ ಪಟ್ಟಣ
गन्धर्वनगर
पदविभागः - > नपुंसकलिङ्गः
कन्नडार्थः - > ಆಕಾಶದಲ್ಲಿ ಹುಟ್ಟುವ ಅಶುಭಸೂಚಕವಾದ ಒಂದು ಪಟ್ಟಣ
L R Vaidya
English
gaMDarva-nagara {% n. %} the city of Gandharvas, an imaginary city in the sky probably the result of some natural phenomenon.
Mahabharata
English
Gandharvanagara (“the city of the Gandharvas, ” Fata morgana). § 194 (Pāṇḍu): I, 126, 4931 (ºākāraṃ… antarhitaṃ).--§ 208 (Astradarśana): I, 134, 5338 (kumārabalaṃ…Gºākāraṃ).--§ 279 (Arjuna): II, 28, 1043 (from G. Arjuna received horses as tribute).--§ 445 (Nivātakavacayuddhap.): III, 173, 12262 (Dānavapuraṃ …Gºākāraṃ).--§ 569 (Bhagavadyānap.): V, 143, 4854 (omens).--§ 578 (Bhīshmavadhap.): VI, 50, 2077 (ketuḥ …Gºopamaḥ).--§ 586 (do.): VI, 103, 4701 (rathāḥ… Gºopamāḥ).--§ 592 (Saṃśaptakavadhap.): VII, 19, 780 (ºākārān…rathān).--§ 593 (Abhimanyuvadhap.): VII, 36, 1569 (do.)
43, 1765 (ºākāraṃ…rathaṃ).--§ 605 (Karṇap.): VIII, 16, 654 (ºākārān rathān)
27, 1112 (ºākāraṃ ghoram āyodhanaṃ).--§ 607 (do.)
VIII, 36, 1676 (jaitraṃ rathavaraṃ Gºopamaṃ).--§ 608 (do.): VIII, 46, 2188 (ºākārā rathāḥ)
81, 4140 (rathāḥ…Gºākārāḥ).-§ 679 (Mokshadh.): XII, 261, 9269 (ºākāraḥ, sc. dharmaḥ). --§ 745c (Cyavana-Kuśikasamv.): XIII, 54, 2826 (prāsādaṃ …Gºopamaṃ).
पुराणम्
English
गन्धर्वनगर / GANDHARVANAGARA. vyāsa has compared munis disappearing from sight to the fading out of gandharva nagara.
“After having thus spoken to the Kurus, and while they were looking on, the band of sages disappeared in a trice like the fading out of gandharvanagara.” (Ādi Parva, Chapter 126, Verses 35 and 36).
What is this gandharvanagara? The following description occurs in Hindi Śabdasāgara. “Owing to different optical illusions (sight) of man, villages and cities may appear to exist in the sky and also on seas, rivers, etc. When during summer the air on the upper strata of deserts, seas etc. gets heated, expanded, and rises up, the light passing through it becomes multi-coloured and gives reflections in the sky in the form of village parts or cities. Also can be seen therein reflections of trees, boats etc. One such reflection may be cast on earth also. This is a mere optical illusion. This reflection immediately fades out also. This unreal city which is an optical illusion is gandharvanagara.
वाचस्पत्यम्
Sanskrit
गन्धर्वनगर
न०
 अनिष्टसूचके आकाशोत्थिते वृ० सं० उक्ते१ खपुरे खपुरशब्दे विवृतिः तस्य कालभेदे विपाकःवृ० स० ९७ अ० उक्तो यथा । “गन्धर्वपुरं मासात् रसवैकृत्यंहिरण्यविकृतिश्च” । ६ त० । २ गन्धर्वाणां नगरे च । “सरो-मानसमासाद्य हाटकानभितः प्रभुः । गन्धर्वरक्षितंदेशमजयत् पाण्डवस्ततः । तत्र तित्तिरिकुल्माषान्मण्डूकाख्यान् । हयोत्तमान् लेभे स करमत्यन्तं ग-न्धर्वनगरात्तदा” भा० स० १७ अ० । अर्जुनोत्तरदि-ग्विजयोक्तौ । गन्धर्वपुरादयो०प्यत्र ।