अथ वर्षसहस्रेण आयुर्वेदमयः पुमान्॥ उदतिष्ठत् सुधर्मात्मा सदण्डः सकमण्डलुः। पूर्वं धन्वन्तरि म अप्सराश्च सुवर्चसः॥ अप्सु निर्मथनादेव सरात् तस्माद् वरस्त्रियः। उत्पेतुर्मनुजश्रेष्ठ तस्मादप्सरसोऽभवन्॥
atha varṣasahasreṇa āyurvedamayaḥ pumān|| udatiṣṭhat sudharmātmā sadaṇḍaḥ sakamaṇḍaluḥ| pūrvaṃ dhanvantari ma apsarāśca suvarcasaḥ|| apsu nirmathanādeva sarāt tasmād varastriyaḥ| utpeturmanujaśreṣṭha tasmādapsaraso'bhavan||
English Meaning
After a thousand years, had rolled on, arose a male being impregnated with the Āyurveda, of exceedingly righteous soul, called Dhanvantari, bearing in his hands a stick, and a Kamandalu. And there arose also, from the cream of the churning waters, those magnificent dames the shining Apsaras. And, O foremost of men, as they had emerged from water, they are called Apsaras.
— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)