An appendix to the Vedas containing rules for the forest mode of life.
आरण्यक (āraṇyaka) [Printed book page 065-2] Āraṇyaka1, the Āraṇyaka or Āraṇyakas, considered as
appendices to the Vedas and as containing the rules for the
forest mode of life; often called śāstra. § 7 (Anukram.):
I, 1, 258 (“better than the Vedas”).—§ 18 (Paulomap.):
I, 4, 856 (śāstre cāraṇyake guruḥ, i.e. Śaunaka).—§ 573
(Ambopākh.): V, 175, 6014 (do., i.e. Śaikhāvatya).—§ 625
(Rājadh.): XII, 19, 591 (vedavādān…śāstrāṇy
Ā°ca).—§ 641 (do.): XII, 61, 2328 (°śāstrāṇi).—§ 717c
(Uparicara): XII, 337, 12762 (no animals were slain in his
Page066-a+ 63 sacrifice but °padodbhūtāḥ bhāgās tatropakalpitāḥ, i.e. pre-
sumably that the portions of offerings were made according
to the prescripts of the Āraṇyakas; differently PCR.).—
§ 717b (Nārāyaṇīya): XII, 340, 12872 (Nārāyaṇa with his
mouth uttered the syllable Om, Gāyatrī, the Āraṇyaka, and the
four Vedas); 343χ, 13257 (sahasraśākhaṃ yat sāma ye vai
vedavido janāḥ|gāyanty Āraṇyake viprāḥ, i.e. Nārāyaṇa);
344ββ, 13316 (“as the Āraṇyaka from the Vedas…”);
349 (IV), 13577 (in that kalpa, when Brahmán took his
birth in the ear of Nārāyaṇa; the Āraṇyakas, etc., sprang
from Nārāyaṇa's mouth), 13629 (“the Sāṅkhya-yoga, the
Veda and Āraṇyakas—Vedāraṇyakaṃ—and the Pañcarātra are
parts of one whole—parasparāṅgāni”); 350, 13637 (= do.).
—§ 787 (Āśramavāsik.): XV, 19, 532 (Śatayūpa instructed
Dhṛtarāṣṭra in the Āraṇyakaṃ vidhiṃ with the permission of
Vyāsa).—§ 788 (do.): XV, 28, 744 (Vyāsa asked Dhṛtarāṣṭra
if he followed the rules of the Āraṇyaka—carasy Āraṇyakaṃ
vidhiṃ?).
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