Arya Vaishya (Arya Vysya) or Komati is an Indian caste. Orthodox Arya Vaishyas follow rituals prescribed in the Vasavi Puranam, a religious text written in the late Middle Ages.Their kuladevata is Vasavi.
The Arya Vaishya are divided into two sub-sects, the Gavara Komatis and the Kalinga Komatis. The community were formerly known as Komati Chettiars but now prefer to be referred to as Arya Vaishya.
The Komatis are said to have originally lived in large numbers along the Godavari River, which the locals called Gomati or Gomti. The Sanskrit Gomati was rendered into Telugu as Komati.
Hanumantha Rao noted that the merchant classes preferred Jainism for gaining social status and respectability, and the erstwhile Banias became Gomati or followers of the Gomata cult in medieval times. The story of Vasavi, the caste goddess of the Vaishyas narrated in the Vaishya Purana, is said to have definite Jain overtones.
According to Rao, there is an alternative etymology for the word Komti, as the "derivation of the word from gomata, the great Jaina saint, which implies that they were followers of Gomata cult or were originally Jains".
"Aryan" (/ˈɛəriən, ˈɛərjən, ˈær-/) is a term meaning "noble" which was used as a self-designation by ancient Indo-Iranian people. The word was used by the Indic people of the Vedic period in India to refer to the noble class and geographic location known as Āryāvarta where Indo-Aryan culture was based. The closely related Iranian people used the term as an ethnic label for themselves in the Avesta scriptures, and the word forms the etymological source of the country Iran. It was believed in the 19th century that it 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.
Drawing on misinterpreted references in the Rig Veda by Western Scholars in the 19th century, the term "Aryan" was adopted as a racial category through the work of Arthur de Gobineau, whose ideology of race was based on an idea of blonde northern European "Aryans" who had migrated across the world and founded all major civilizations, before being degraded through racial mixture with local populations. Through Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Gobineau's ideas later influenced the Nazi racial ideology, which also saw "Aryan peoples" as innately superior to other putative racial groups. The atrocities committed in the name of this racial aryanism caused the term to be abandoned by most academics; and, in present-day academia, the term "Aryan" has been replaced in most cases by the terms "Indo-Iranian" and "Indo-European", and "Aryan" is now mostly limited to its appearance in the term of the "Indo-Aryan languages".
Aarya is a 2007 Tamil film directed by Balasekaran. The film starred Madhavan, Bhavana, Prakash Raj, Vadivelu, Praveen Kumar, Tejashree and Devan in major roles. The film's music was composed by Mani Sharma. It was dubbed in Hindi as My Dear Big B.
Deepika (Bhavana) is an arrogant rich girl. A medical college student, she dictates terms at the college. Sister of local don Kasi (Prakash Raj), she is feared by students, professors and even the Dean of the College. Enter Aariya (Madhavan), a final year student who comes to Chennai Medical College from Coimbatore. A soft-spoken Aariya runs into Deepika. They develop cold shoulders. In a fit of rage, she kidnaps Aariya's sister. But Aariya faces her challenges daringly. However, she soon falls in love with him.
But he is not ready to marry the sister of a ruffian. The remaining story tells us how the brother and sister put pressure on Aariya to become a rowdy so that Aariya's status is equal enough as Kasi's status so that Aariya can marry Kasi's sister Deepika.
tumi ki dekhecho
dusshomoyer shontan
chitkar kore janai
odhikarer kotha
tumi ki shunecho
ei shomoyer nirjash
gontobbe paa barai
kisher e hotashai
tumi ki diyecho
tomar oi shathider
jara upore takai
tomai upor bhebe?
tumi ki janona
akasher tarara
nibhe gele ek e ek
shob e adhar timir?
tumi ki dekhecho
dusshomoyer shontan
chitkar kore janai
odhikarer kotha
tumi ki shunecho
ei shomoyer nirjash
gontobbe paa barai
kisher e hotashai
tumi ki diyecho
tomar oi shathider
jara upore takai
tomai upor bhebe?
tumi ki janona
akasher tarara
nibhe gele ek e ek
shob e adhar timir?
amra to dekhte chai
bhor er surjo laal
raat periye asha
dhorjer shur
bohudur pothe
kono pore ache
joma howa bishonnota
bhenge shamne..
shimana dekha jai
notun asha jagai
hotasha muche jai
notun suchonai..
tumi ki diyecho
tomar oi shathider
jara upore takai