Upon the principal Apsaris, and the Vidyadharis, and the daughters of the Nāgas, and the Gandharvis were begot by the Cāraņas as sons, heroic monkeys of gigantic bodies, ranging the forests and living on fruits and roots.
चारणाश्च सुतान् वीरान् ससृजुर्वनचारिणः। वानरान् सुमहाकायान् सर्वान् वै वनचारिणः॥ अप्सरःसु च मुख्यासु तथा विद्याधरीषु च। नागकन्यासु च तदा गन्धर्वीणां तनूषु च। कामरूपबलोपेता यथाकामविचारिणः॥