Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun aranyaka

1 sense of aranyaka

Sense 1
Aranyaka -- (a treatise resembling a Brahmana but to be read or expounded by anchorites in the quiet of the forest)
       INSTANCE OF=> Vedic literature, Veda -- ((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)