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Arya Muthu

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Arya to muthu

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Arya -Muthu Katti

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sarpatta paramparai lpa.Ranjith l santhose narayanan l Arya lgp muthu

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Kaatru Kullae - Video Song | Sarvam | Arya | Trisha | Vishnuvardhan | Yuvan Shankar Raja | Ayngaran

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Na Muthu Kumar Dances With Yuvan, Arya , Lingusamy

"Aryan" is a term that was used as a self-designation by Indo-Iranian people. The word was used by the Indic people of the Vedic period in India as an ethnic label for themselves and to refer to the noble class as well as the geographic region known as Āryāvarta, where Indo-Aryan culture is based. The closely related Iranian people also used the term as an ethnic label for themselves in the Avesta scriptures, and the word forms the etymological source of the country name Iran. It was believed in the 19th century that Aryan was also a self-designation used by all Proto-Indo-Europeans, a theory that has now been abandoned. Scholars point out that, even in ancient times, the idea of being an "Aryan" was religious, cultural and linguistic, not racial.