Urvashi is the most celebrated of the Apsaras, a celestial nymph whose beauty brought kings to ruin and whose descent to earth to live with the mortal King Pururavas became one of the great love stories of Vedic and Puranic literature.
Urvashi descended to Arjuna's chamber in Indra's heaven, but Arjuna called her 'mother' for she had once been Pururavas's wife and thus an ancestress of his line, and the spurned apsara cursed him to live as a eunuch — a curse Indra softened to one year, which Arjuna served as Brihannala at Virata's court.
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