In the Rig Veda there is a god Aryaman, 'the true,' who forms with Mitra and Varuna a triad (see below).

Windisch questions the propriety of identifying [=I]ran with Erin, and Schrader (p.

584^2) doubts whether the Indo-Europeans as a body ever called themselves Aryans.
We employ the latter name because it is short.] * * * * *.