01-13-2006, 03:59 AM
I did a search on the Vendidad for "airya". There is no occurence of word "airya" by itself. The following words involving "airya" were found with their closest sanskrit equivalents I can think of:
1. Airyana Vaeja (and Airyana vaejo)
2. aonya takhairya
3. airyama
4. vairya
5. airyaman
6. mairya
7. dairya
8. Ahuna-vairya
9. kshatra-vairya
10. Astairya
It seems airyama is like sanskrit aryamA, and vairya is like sanskrit varya.
Why is there no term "airya" (for sanskrit Arya) by itself in the whole of vendidad??
Only mention of something like arya is in vendidad-5-39:
'I invoke the Glory of the Aryan regions; '
But the e-text I looked at doesn't give the original spelling.
I may have to spend part of a day in the library to get the original spellings, unless someone can post them here.
1. Airyana Vaeja (and Airyana vaejo)
2. aonya takhairya
3. airyama
4. vairya
5. airyaman
6. mairya
7. dairya
8. Ahuna-vairya
9. kshatra-vairya
10. Astairya
It seems airyama is like sanskrit aryamA, and vairya is like sanskrit varya.
Why is there no term "airya" (for sanskrit Arya) by itself in the whole of vendidad??
Only mention of something like arya is in vendidad-5-39:
'I invoke the Glory of the Aryan regions; '
But the e-text I looked at doesn't give the original spelling.
I may have to spend part of a day in the library to get the original spellings, unless someone can post them here.