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A 12th-century sandstone statue of an apsara from Madhya Pradesh, India. Apsaras [1] [2] (Sanskrit: अप्सरा, IAST: Apsarā, Pali: अच्छरा, romanized: Accharā [3] [4] Khmer: អប្សរា [5] Thai:นางอัปสรา) are a member of a class of celestial beings in Hindu and Buddhist culture.
An Apsara carving at Angkor Wat.. Earlier Khmer art was heavily influenced by Indian treatments of Hindu subject. By the 7th century, Khmer sculpture begins to drift away from its Hindu influences – pre-Gupta for the Buddhist figures, Pallava for the Hindu figures – and through constant stylistic evolution, it comes to develop its own originality, which by the 10th century can be ...
Urvashi is the apsara to be specially named in the Rigveda, the oldest known Hindu scripture which was composed around 1900–1200 BCE. The 95th Sukta (section) of the 10th Mandala of the Rigveda is dedicated to a conversation between her and her husband, Pururavas .
The statue pieces were found in the dance hall of Ta Prohm Temple, archaeologists said. ... Researchers from the Apsara National Authority of Cambodia and the Archaeological Research of India were ...
The statues — depicting so-called “door guardians” — were discovered last week near the north gate leading to the 11th-century Royal Palace at Angkor Thom, the last capital of the Khmer Empire, said Long Kosal, spokesman for the Apsara National Authority, the government agency that oversees the archaeological park.
Instead, the project uncovered dozens of ancient statues. The team of workers were just planing to clean a section of Ta Prohm temple and catalog some of the stones scattered nearby, APSARA ...
The throne is supported by 32 statues of Apsaras. When Bhoja sits on the throne, one of the statues comes to life, and explains to the king that simply sitting on the throne will not make him a great judge: there are other qualities that he lacks. The Apsara tells him one story related to one quality that a good judge must possess and flies away.
Additionally an Apsara dancer may be found wearing a garland of jasmine. Two types of gold ankle jewelry are usually worn by the Apsara dancer, the first being kong tong chhuk the second kong ngor (or kong kravel). The sangvar is a loosely decorated band of beads worn crosswise. The golden flower is considered a body-decorating element, either ...