| In the dance, Mera, a mythical ancestor of the Cambodian people, is framed by six apsara, or celestial dancers, whom she has just encountered. |
| The Secretariat worked with the APSARA National Authority to design the program and get it up and running. |
| Everyone in APSARA put on his or her thinking cap for this project, because we have museums, the first of which, if I'm not mistaken, is the first archaeological museum in the Angkor zone that will be opened in November. |
| Apsara Gunaratne and her son, Kavin, are among those who will directly benefit from the UNICEF-supported Tangalle Water Supply Scheme in Sri Lanka. |
| But the boy's relatives don't sit on their behinds and wait for a pari or an apsara to drop out of the heavens. |
| This, again, is where the kanya is distinct from the apsara, the heavenly hetaerae to whom the maternal instinct is foreign. |
