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

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  • These are all included in the third Parva called Aranyaka, consisting of two hundred and sixty-nine sections.
  • Aranyaka, consisting of two hundred and sixty-nine sections.
  • Dyuta (gambling), Anudyuta (subsequent to gambling), Aranyaka, and Krimira - badha (destruction of Krimira).
  • As butter is in curd, Brahmana among bipeds, the Aranyaka among the Vedas, and nectar among medicines; as the sea is eminent among receptacles of water, and the cow...
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