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乾闥婆城（此云尋香城池謂十寶山間有音樂神名乾闥婆忉利諸天意須音樂此神身有異相即知天意往彼娛樂因以此事西域謂諸樂兒亦曰乾闥婆西域樂兒多為幻伎幻作城郭須臾如故因即謂龍所現城郭為乾闥婆也）。

"City of the gandharvas" (this means the "city of seeking fragrance"; that is to say, between the ten jewelled mountains there are spirits of music named gandharvas. When the gods of the Trāyastriṃśa desire music, because this spirit has special signs on his body, he immediately knows the gods' intention and goes there to entertain them. For this reason, the Western Regions also call actors and musicians gandharvas. Since musicians in the Western Regions often perform illusions and conjure cities that vanish in a moment back to normal, cities conjured by dragons are also called gandharva [cities]).