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ETYMOLOGY OF SOME 
who marries lier, according to the following passage of the 
Yajurveda : — 
^^ : v[■>J^r fff^ jrw r>f^ Trn:-. i 
^fffqt '^nr^TnT ^3ft^^^ frj^^rr: ii 
Somali prathamo vivide gandharvS vivida uttarah i 
Trtlyo agnistepati sturlyaste manusvajah a 
Somodadadgandharvaya gandharvodadadagnaye i 
Eayirhcaputramscada dagnirmahyamatlio imam a 
" Soma married thee first and then Gandharva mamed ; 
thy third husband is Agni, and the fourth is a person born of 
man. Soma gave thee to Grandharva, Gandharva to Agni, 
and Agni gave thee wealth and sons to me." 
This relation of the Gandharvas to the fair sex is some- 
what like that which the KivTavpoi bore to the same sex ; for 
they are Well known for their brutal sensualities, and are 
said to have offered violence to women on several occasions. 
There are many other points of similarity in the stories of 
the Gandharvas and Kentaurs, which I do not mention here, 
as we may be quite convinced of the alliance of their names 
and their stories from what has alreadj' been said regarding 
them. We have now to ascertain the original signification 
of the Sans. jfM't-G'iiiitlharva which may lead to a proper 
explanation of the functions and attributes of those beings. 
In Sanskrit the word at^-Gandharva is applied to a horse, 
a kind of quadruped like the deer, or a musk deer ; rr^-Tff- 
Gandhai-vi, a feminine form of the Avord, to a daughter of 
Surabhi, mother of the race of horses, and the word 
kanthirva, a modification of the word, to a lion, and apj^^. 
kandarpa, another modification, to the god of love. I think, 
therefore, that the word jfviT^- Gandharva is formed fi-om a 
word jfpq^-gaudhara, which is allied to the follo'tt'ing Aryan 
