Aryan
in general language, pertaining to the old race speaking the primeval Aryan tongue, or any of the numerous forms of speech which have sprung from it. The ancestors of most modern Europeans lived together as one people, speaking the primeval Aryan tongue, in central Asia, and apparently near the Pamir steppe.
In a special sense, the Aryan race which invaded India at a period of re- ARYAN RACE mote antiquity, possibly 1700 B. C., and still remains the dominant Hindu race there.