The Music of Hindostan c8.s1.9

c8.s1.9

² In the second book of the Rāmāyaṇa there are summoned to Bharadvāja’s feast the Gāndharvas, Hāhā, Huhū, and ‘the sweet’ Viśvāvasu, and the Apsarāsas Alambuṣā, Ghṛtāchī, Viśvāchī, Hemā, Bhīmā, and Nāgadantā, with Tumburu ‘to lead the strain’. Alambuṣā is the Apsarāsa chosen out of 25,000,000 handmaids to ‘make a breach in the virtue’ of a Brahman of Kāśi.