An Index to the Names in the Mahabharata, with Short Explanations and a Concordance to the Bombay and Calcutta Editions and P. C. Roy's Translation c5.s1.522

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Araṇyaka¹, the Āraṇyaka or Āraṇyakas, considered as appendices to the Vedas and as containing the rules for the forest mode of life; often called çāstra. § 7 (Anukram.): I, 1, 258 ("better than the Vedas").—§ 18 (Paulomap.): I, 4, 856 (çāstre cāraṇyake guruḥ, i.e. Çaunaka).—§ 573 (Ambopākh.): V, 175, 6014 (do., i.e. Çaikhāvatya).—§ 625 (Rājadh.): XII, 19, 591 (vedavādān . . . çāstrāṇy ā°ca).—§ 641 (do.): XII, 61, 2328 (°çāstrāṇi).—§ 717c (Uparicare): XII, 337, 12762 (no animals were slain in his sacrifice but °padodbhūtaḥ bhāgās tatropakalpitāḥ, i.e. presumably 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); 343x, 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—Vedāraṇyakam—and the Pañcarātra are parts of one whole—parasparāṅgāni”); 350, 13587 (= do.).—§ 787 (Ācramavāsik.): XV, 19, 532 (Caṭayūpa instructed Dhṛtarāṣṭra in the Āraṇyakam vidhim with the permission of Vyāsa).—§ 788 (do.): XV, 28, 744 (Vyāsa asked Dhṛtarāṣṭra if he followed the rules of the Āraṇyaka-carasy Āraṇyakam vidhim?).