一切經音義 22.329

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"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]).