Note 137 — BOOK XXVI.
Reading edition
p. 86. l. 3. —stands the Apsara in heaven. The birth of the Apsarasas is thus related in the Ramayana.
Then from the agitated deep upsprung The legion of Apsarasas, so named That to the watery element they owed Their being. Myriads were they born, and all In vesture heavenly clad, and heavenly gems; Yet more divine their native semblance, rich With all the gifts of grace and youth and beauty. A train innumerous followed, yet thus fair Nor god nor demon sought their widowed love; Thus Rághava they still remain, their charms The common treasure of the host of heaven.
—Wilson's Translation, Preface to the Drama of Vikrama and Urvasi, p. 13.