A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and Literature c5.140

c5.140

ĀRYA, ĀRYAN. ‘Loyal, faithful.’ The name of the immigrant race from which all that is Hindu originated. The name by which the people of the Rig-veda “called men of their own stock and religion, in contradistinction to the Dasyus (or Dasas), a term by which we either understand hostile demons or the rude aboriginal tribes” of India, who were An-āryas.