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(Indian mythology,Hinduism,Buddhism) A female spirit of the clouds and waters.
1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 40:
But the boy's relatives don't sit on their behinds and wait for a pari or an apsara to drop out of the heavens.
2004, Khushwant Singh, Burial at Sea, Penguin, published 2014, page 102:
But here was an apsara rising out of the waters of a holy Ganga, raising her arms in salutation to the sun rising above the range of hills and offering her behind to him to marvel at and worship.
