gaMDarvaH 1 A celestial musician, a class of demi-gods regarded as the singers or musicians of gods, and said to give good and agreeable voice to girls; somaM SOcaM dadAvAsAM gaMDarvaSca SuBAM giraM Y. 1. 71. 2 A singer in general. 3 A horse. 4 The musk-deer. 5 The soul after death and previous to its being born again. 6 The black cuckoo. 7 The sun. 8 A sage, pious man. Comp. — nagaraM , — puraM the city of the Gandharvas, an imaginary city in the sky, probably the result of some natural phenomenon, such as mirage. — rAjaH Citraratha, the chief of the Gandharvas. — vidyA the science of music. — vivAhaH one of the eight forms of marriage described in Ms. 3. 27 &c.; in this form marriage proceeds entirely from love or the mutual inclination of a youth and maiden without ceremonies and without consulting relatives; it is, as Kālidāsa observes, kaTamapyabAMDavakftA snehapravftti Ś. 4. 16. — vedaH one of the four subordinate Vedas or Upavedas , which treats of music; see upaveda . — hastaH, -hastakaH the castor-oil plant.