Apsara appears in Vedic tradition.
The Ṛgveda names apsarases among celestial women of the hymns — water-and-sky figures in Vedic speech. A named Vedic class in that corpus, not a later court-dancer dump alone and not yaksha.
from Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton (translation) · The Rigveda, 2014 (this translation); hymns much older
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