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Definition of Aranyaka
1. Noun. A treatise resembling a Brahmana but to be read or expounded by anchorites in the quiet of the forest.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aranyaka
Literary usage of Aranyaka
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Philosophy of the Upanishads by Paul Deussen (1908)
"... of all kinds of explanations of the ritual and allegorical speculations therein.
This is only what might be expected in the life 1 aranyaka-vrata- ..."
2. A History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature So Far as it Illustrates the by Friedrich Max Müller (1859)
"had been uttered, so metaphysical speculations were carried on in the forests of
India long before the names of aranyaka or Upanishad were thought of. ..."
3. A Handbook of Sanskrit Literature: With Appendices Descriptive of the by George Small (1866)
"The aranyaka and Upanishads of the Rig-veda.— The Upanishads are the argumentative
sections of the Veda, sometimes entitled the Vedanta. ..."
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