Aryal

Aryal (also written as Arjel,Arjyal, Ariyal) is a Nepali surname. Aryal belongs to the Atreya gotra, and as such, they are believed to be the descendants of Sage Atreya.^[1] In Hinduism, Varaha (Nepali: वराह) is the deity of the Aryal clan.^[2] They were the Upadhyayas who worked as astrologers, also known as Jyotishis or Jaisis. The Aryal family is part of the Thar Ghar of the Gorkha Kingdom.

Aryal

Pronunciation	âìæĺ
Language(s)	Nepali
Origin
Language(s)	Nepali
Word/name	Nepal
Other names
Variant form(s)	Ariyal, Arjel,ArjyaL
Derivative(s)	Upadhyay Aryal
See also	Ghimire, Poudel, Bhattarai, Khanal, Dawadi, Panta, Dhakal, Subedi

Notable people with surname Aryal

• Bhairav Aryal, Nepali essayist
• Krishna Raj Aryal, foreign minister of Nepal^[3][4]
• Prakash Aryal, Inspector General of Police
• Prashant Aryal, Nepalese journalist
• Upendra Kant Aryal, Nepalese Inspector General of Police
• Urmila Aryal, Nepalese Communist politician
• Padma Kumari Aryal, former cabinet minister for Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation and current Minister of Agriculture and Livestock Development. She was also previously the Minister of State for Health and Population.
• Shakti Ballav Aryal, Nepalese writer
• Raju Aryal, Inspector General of Armed Police Force