Ārya
group · 2 works · 13 mentions · 13 anchored passages
Āryas · the Ārya's prosperities · Ārya singers
spoken of as
1 expressionin the texts
Rigveda
People for whom the Aśvins make broad light after driving away the Dasyu.
Sowing barley with the plough, milking food for mankind, O wondrous Aśvins — blowing the Dasyu away with a pipe, you made broad light for the Ārya.
You revealed the light for the Ārya;
May we be of those who, with your help, crossing over, overcome all rivals and Dasyus for the Ārya.
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
A group named alongside the Dāsa as a target of martial overcoming in the closing Manyu verse.
O Manyu, that bolt of yours which was kindled as an arrow, which nourishes all power in succession — with you as our ally, O fashioner of strength, with might overcoming all, may we overcome the Dāsa and the Ārya.
who, like a dicing-master winning, seized the prize — the Ārya's prosperities — he, O people, is Indra.
" — and of whom they even say, "He does not exist" — he diminishes the Ārya's prosperities like a gambler's stake.