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ARYA SAMAJ, a Hindu religious association with reforming tendencies, which was founded by a Guzerati Brahman named Dayanand Saraswati. This man was born of a Saivite family about 1825, but in early manhood grew dissatisfied with idolworship. He undertook many ...

ARYAN, a term which has been used in a confusing variety of significations by different philologists. By Max Miiller especially it was employed as a convenient short term for the whole body of languages more commonly known as IndoEuropean (q.v.) or Indo-German ...

... connexion belween Ihe soul and Ihe breath; this identification is found both in Aryan and Semitic languages; in Latin we have spiritus, in Greek pncuma, in Hebrew ranch; and Ihe idea is found exlending downwards to the lowest planes of culture in Australia. Am ...

... nd that the anti-Semites are engaged in an effort to prevent what is called the Aryan race from being subjugated by a Semitic immigration, and to save Aryan ideals from being modified by an alien and demoralizing oriental Anschauung. There is no essential foun ...

... to 500 ft. The southern coast is occupied by the delta of the Oxus (Jihun, Amu-darya), one of the arms of which, the Laudan, forms a swamp, 80 m. long and 20 broad, before it discharges into the sea. The only other tributary of any size that the sea receives i ...

... p was originally that of the tree itself (ntdpfaris, " the cedar goddess"); at Caryae there was an image of Artemis (copuaTis (" the nut-tree goddess "). Two curious epithets in this connexion deserve notice: XiryoSetr/ia ( "bound with withies "), derived from ...

... Probinus, consuls for the year 395. It contains an alphabetical ARVAL BROTHERS— ARYAN list, chiefly of verb* admitting more than one construction, with examples from each of the four writers, Virgil, Sallust, Terence and Cicero. Cassiodorui, the only writer wh ...

... es of men with strong muscular development were used to support balconies (see CARYATIDES and TELAMONES). A figure of Atlas supporting the heavens is often found as a frontispiece in early collections of maps, and is said to have been first thus used by Mercat ...

... Issainsakria, who called himself Immanes; but they gradually became completely Aryanized, and their agglutinative dialects were suppknted by the Aryan Persian from the south-east. Ekm, " the land of the cedar-forest," with its enchanted trees, figured largely ...

... . Sometimes the frieze is omitted, as in the entablature of the portico of the caryatides of the Erechtheum. There is every reason to believe that the frieze did not exist in the archaic temple of Diana at Ephesus; and it is not found in the Lycian tombs, whic ...

... let for the surface drainage. Etah was at an early date the seat of a primitive Aryan civilization, and the surrounding country is mentioned by HsOan Tsang, the Chinese Buddhist pilgrim of the yth century A.O., as rich in temples and monasteries. But after the ...

... na Dengel (1508-1540) the annals of his four predecessors, Zar'a Ya'kub, Baeda Maryam, Eskender and Na'od (1434-1508) were drawn up; those of the first two were published by J. Perruchon (Paris, 1893); in the Journ. Asiat. for 1894 the same scholar published a ...

... specially those which regulate the mutual relation of consonants in the various Aryan languages, at the same time comparing the vowel sounds. (4) In comparing two words, A and B, belonging to the same language, of which A contains the lesser number of syllable ...

... 18-0 19-2 Poland . . . 14-8 Germany . 18-5 28-2 United Kingdom . 29-9 When the Aryan peoples began their immigration into Europe a large part of the surface must have been covered with primeval forest; for even after long centuries of human occupation ponsts ...

... ollected evidence to support a theory that the rite existed among all primitive Aryan nations. He thinks that in enjoining it the medieval priesthood of India were making no innovation, but were simply reviving an Aryan custom of a barbaric period long antedat ...