From: Rick McCallister
Message: 52731
Date: 2008-02-12
> In my post, I just added the man meaning of word Ar____________________________________________________________________________________
> as a prelude to stress
> the fact that most of the meanings offered for the
> word are sociological in
> connotation. I do not either support or condemn
> them, If you remember, I
> have added the Dowson's meaning in the same breathe.
> Obviously, Arya does
> not carry the meaning loyal This meaning was
> attributed by colonial rulers
> to stream line the Indian thought in accordance with
> their goals.
>
> the idea of the first paragraph is to stress this
> fact that 'hat most of the
> meanings offered for the word are sociological in
> connotation" and nothing
> else.
>
> The main idea of the post, as requested in the
> opening line, is to gather
> the economic meanings attributed to word Arya.
>
> Btw, while I do not want to start off another round
> of discussion on Arthur
> but I can not resist the layman's urge to see that
> (M) Aruthi(r) (another
> name of Hanuman, an ape man of Rmn, known for his
> super natural strength)
> and Arthur are at least phonetic cognates.
>
> Kishore patnaik
>