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{{Dictkey|རོལ་མོ།}} ([[Wyl.]] ''rol mo '') {{Color|#808080|''Pron.:'' rolmo}}
* ''Skt.'' गन्धर्वः, gandharva, {{Color|#006060|''Pron.:'' gandharva}}. From {{Color|#006060|''Sanskrit:''}} a Gandharva [though in later times the Gandharvas are regarded as a class, yet in | rarely more than one is mentioned | he is designated as the heavenly Gandharva | and is also called Viśvā-vasu | in | his habitation is the sky, or the region of the air and the heavenly waters | his especial duty is to guard the heavenly Soma | which the gods obtain through his intervention | it is obtained for the human race by Indra, who conquers the Gandharva and takes it by force | the heavenly Gandharva is supposed to be a good physician, because the Soma is considered as the best medicine | possibly, however, the word Soma originally denoted not the beverage so called, but the moon, and the heavenly Gandharva may have been the genius or tutelary deity of the moon | in one passage |  the heavenly Gandharva and the Soma are identified | he is also regarded as one of the genii who regulate the course of the Sun's horses (i, 163, 2 ; x, 177, 2 | N. of the attendant of the 17th Arhat of the present Avasarpiṇī | a singer | the Koi0l or black cuckoo | a sage, pious man | on | a horse | the musk deer  | derived fr. | the soul after death and previous to its being born again (corresponding in some respects to the western notion of a ghost) | N. of the 14th Kalpa or period of the world | of the 21st Muhūrta | of a Svara or tone  | for | the Gandharvas | above  | N. of a people (named together with the Gāndhāras) {{Context|[[:Category:Mahavyutpatti|Mahavyutpatti]]}} {{Context|[[:Category:Sanskrit|Sanskrit]]}} {{Dictref|[[MVP]]}} {{Dictref|[[MW]]}}
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