गन्धर्ब्ब m. (
-र्ब्बः)
1. A Gandharba or celestial musician; these demigods inhabit INDRA'S heaven, and form the orchestra at all the banquets of the principal deities.
2. A horse.
3. A kind of deer; according to some authorities, the musk-deer.
4. The soul after death, and previous to its being born again, corresponding, in some respects, to the western notion of ghosts.
5. A singer in general.
6. The Kokila or black cuckoo.
7. The sun.
8. A sage, a pious man.
E. गन्ध smell, injury, &c.
अर्ब्ब to go, affix
अच् the
अ final of
गन्ध is reject- ed; the root is also sometimes written with the dental letter
अर्व्व, when the compound will be
गन्धर्व्व; the best authorities however write it with the final labial letter
ब as above.
ROOTS:
गन्ध अर्ब्ब अच् अ गन्ध अर्व्व गन्धर्व्व; ब