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- noun Alternative form of
apsara .
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This area enshrines hundreds of lifelike portraits of Khmer goddesses, known by the Sanskrit terms apsaras or devata.
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The most delicate images of sacred Khmer women, called by the Sanskrit terms apsaras or devata, are preserved in the Bakan of Angkor Wat.
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The portraits of sacred women, now called devata or apsaras depending on their style, surround the Bayon.
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Calling all female images in all Khmer temples “celestial dancers” and “apsaras” contradicts a considerable amount of research on this site, as well as the work of Trudy Jacobsen, Peter Sharrock, Miranda Shaw, Sappho Marchal, and many other scholars.
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While researching flying goddesses like the apsaras manifesting from the Sea of Milk at Angkor Wat, I began following threads about the Indonesian rice goddess, Dewi Sri.
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“Some 1,700 apsaras sicare carved on the walls of Angkor Wat alone; thousands more – individual in dress, hairstyle, and ornamentation – appear in almost every Angkor temple, Hindu and Buddhist alike.”
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The women of Angkor Wat, frequently called devata and apsaras, are related to many divine, semi-divine and mortal Asian females.
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The apsaras of Angkor « Itchy Feet linked to this post on September 24, 2009
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The whole world plays host all to swanmays and apsaras, Odette and Odile and Olrun, Urvaci and Kessel Djibak and the swan-maid servants of Othinn One-Eye -- Sigrdrifa, Mist, Svanrikr, Grimhildr, Skeggjöld, and all their bloody sisters.
it's time to see the world. it's time to kiss the girl. avocadovpx 2007
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Google some keywords now to see…mudras, apsaras, angkor wat, devata…yet there is nothing of substance.
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