The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (256 page)

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rya-m
rga
(P
li,
ariya-magga
). Sacred path to the full and final attainment in Buddhism. It has four stages, divided according to whether the
arya-pudgala
(person on the path) is still on the way or has gained the fruit (
phala
):
(i)  is the stream-enterer (
srot
panna
);
(ii)  is the once-returner (
sakrd
g
min
);
(iii)  is the not-returner (
an
g
min
);
(iv)  is the attainer (
arhat
)
.
ryans
.
A group of Indo-European speaking people who spread through Iran and N. India in the early 2nd millenium BCE. This is the so-called Aryan invasion.
Arya-pudgala
:

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