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'''Aryan''' is an English word derived from the [[Sanskrit]] ''ārya'' meaning "noble" or "distinguished". In present-day academia the term "Indo-Iranian" and "Indo-European" is preferred, term "Aryan" being now mostly limited to its appearance in the term "Indo-Aryan" to represent speakers of North, West and Central Indian languages. | '''Aryan''' is an English word derived from the [[Sanskrit]] ''ārya'' meaning "noble" or "distinguished". In present-day academia the term "Indo-Iranian" and "Indo-European" is preferred, term "Aryan" being now mostly limited to its appearance in the term "Indo-Aryan" to represent speakers of North, West and Central Indian languages. | ||
[[H. P. Blavatsky]] describes it as follows: | |||
<blockquote>Ârya (Sk.) Lit., “the holy”; originally the title of Rishis, those who had mastered the “Âryasatyâni” (q.v.) and entered the Âryanimârga path to Nirvâna or Moksha, the great “four-fold” path. But now the name has become the epithet of a race, and our Orientalists, depriving the Hindu Brahmans of their birth-right, have made Aryans of all Europeans.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Theosophical Glossary'' (Krotona, CA: Theosophical Publishing House, 1973), 32.</ref></blockquote> | |||
In the [[Theosophy|Theosophical]] literature "Aryan" is the name given to the fifth [[Root-Race]]. | In the [[Theosophy|Theosophical]] literature "Aryan" is the name given to the fifth [[Root-Race]]. | ||
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Aryan is an English word derived from the Sanskrit ārya meaning "noble" or "distinguished". In present-day academia the term "Indo-Iranian" and "Indo-European" is preferred, term "Aryan" being now mostly limited to its appearance in the term "Indo-Aryan" to represent speakers of North, West and Central Indian languages.
H. P. Blavatsky describes it as follows:
Ârya (Sk.) Lit., “the holy”; originally the title of Rishis, those who had mastered the “Âryasatyâni” (q.v.) and entered the Âryanimârga path to Nirvâna or Moksha, the great “four-fold” path. But now the name has become the epithet of a race, and our Orientalists, depriving the Hindu Brahmans of their birth-right, have made Aryans of all Europeans.[1]
In the Theosophical literature "Aryan" is the name given to the fifth Root-Race.
- ↑ Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, The Theosophical Glossary (Krotona, CA: Theosophical Publishing House, 1973), 32.