Urvashi (Hindu mythological character)

LC control no.	no2017103934
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Urvashi (Hindu mythological character) *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Urvasi (Hindu mythological character) Urvashi (Apsara)
Other standard no.	cnp00554702 18150262861805722631 Q2307799
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Found in	Mahakavi Kalidasa's Vikramorvasheeyam, 2006: container (Urvashi) Wikipedia, viewed August 9, 2017 (Urvashi, also Urvasi (Sanskrit: literally she who can control heart of others. "Ur" means heart and "vash" means to control) is an Apsara (nymph) in Hindu legend. Monier Monier-Williams proposes a different etymology in which the name means 'widely pervasive' and suggests that in its first appearances in Vedic texts it is a name for the dawn goddess. She was a celestial maiden in Indra's court and was considered the most beautiful of all the Apsaras. She is the mother of Rishyasringa, the great saint of the Ramayana era of ancient India from Vibhandaka, who later played crucial role in birth of Rama and was married to Shanta, the elder sister of Rama. She became the wife of king Pururavas (Purūrávas, from purū+rávas "crying much or loudly"), an ancient chief of the lunar race (Shatapatha Brahmana 11.5.1), and treated in Kalidasa's drama Vikramōrvaśīyam. She is perennially youthful and infinitely charming but always elusive. She is a source as much of delight as of dolour) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urvashi>
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