Geography/Culture: Hindustani. She is first referred to in the Rig Veda (V41.19).
Description: Heavenly Nymph; Goddess of fire-making rituals; She Who grants success in love affairs when invoked to do so.
To Whom Sacred: fire; the female fire-stick.
Male Associates: consort, Pururavas, ----, one of the two fire-sticks of which She is the other, and their Son: Ayu, Fire, which is generated between them. Son, Krpa, He-of-Compassion, by Saradvata, ----. Son, Vasistha, ----, by lovers: Varuna, ----, and Mitra, ----.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• The most beautiful and chief of the Apsaras, {Suspended-Waters}below.
• Mother of Krpi, She-of-Compassionbelow.

Geography/Culture: Hindustani.
Linguistic Note: the essence of the waters is a reference to clouds. They are Those Who move in or between the waters.
Description: Flower-garlanded, bejewelled, dove-footed shapeshifting Goddesses of the clouds, the mists drawn up by the sun, seduction, promiscuity, the sense of smell, and odours of all kinds; Those celestial Beings Who dance and sing in Indra's paradise; Those Who are without maternal feelings; Emanations of the Earth-Mother Whose scent They share; Those Who bestow favours on wedding processions and bring luck at games of dice when besought to do so; Those Who are said to cause madness.
To Whom Sacred: flower-garlands; the wish-fulfilling tree parijata (Indian Coral Tree Drythrina indica); trees in general; dove; aquatic birds (whose forms They often adopt); brilliantly coloured chariots (in which They take warriors who die in battle to paradise); cymbals; lutes.
Male Associates: They are the attendants of Soma. Their consorts, the Gandharvas, are the attendants of Varuna.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Obviously, I should think, related to Apah, Waters, Who is linked with Gauri, Yellow-Brilliance.
• Sometimes said to be the Daughters of Bhasi, the Mother of birds. {There is more in 0thers-T}.
• Sometimes said to be Daughters of Vac, Creative-Word.
• Their treatment of warriors is akin to Norse Valkyrjar, Who are linked with Culsu, ----.

Geography/Culture: Hindustani.
To Whom Sacred: kusa {check this spelling} grass (She and Her brother Krpa were born in a bed of it).
Male Associates: son, Asvatthaman, Horse-Voiced by consort Drona.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Also called Gautami, ----.
• Daughter of Urvasi, ----, above.