ARANYAKA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Aranyaka mean? 

• ARANYAKA (noun)
  The noun ARANYAKA has 1 sense:

1. a treatise resembling a Brahmana but to be read or expounded by anchorites in the quiet of the forest

  Familiarity information: ARANYAKA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARANYAKA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A treatise resembling a Brahmana but to be read or expounded by anchorites in the quiet of the forest

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Instance hypernyms:

Veda; Vedic literature ((from the Sanskrit word for 'knowledge') any of the most ancient sacred writings of Hinduism written in early Sanskrit; traditionally believed to comprise the Samhitas, the Brahmanas, the Aranyakas, and the Upanishads)