aryaman | अर्यमन् | aryaman

aryama/n | अर्यम/न् | m. a bosom friend, play-fellow, companion, (especially) a friend who asks a woman in marriage for another, RV.; AV.; ŚBr.; TBr.
N. of an Āditya (who is commonly invoked together with Varuṇa and Mitra, also with Bhaga, Bṛhaspati, and others; he is supposed to be the chief of the Manes, Bhag. &c., the milky way is called his path [aryamṛa/ḥ pa/nṭāḥ | अर्यमृअ/ः प/न्टाः |, TBr.]; he presides over the Nakṣatra Uttaraphalgunī, VarBṛS.; his name is used to form different male names, Pāṇ. v, 3, 84), RV. &c.
the sun, Śiś. ii, 39
the Asclepias plant, L.

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