(sometimes m. also,) [aryate gamyate śeṣe vayasi ṛ-anyaccanit Uṇ. 3. 102] A land neither cultivated nor grazed, a wilderness, forest, desert; priyānāśe kṛtsnaṃ kila jagadaraṇyaṃ hi bhavati U. 6. 30; mātā yasya gṛhe nāsti bhāryā cāpriyavādinī. araṇyaṃ tena gaṃtavyaṃ yathāraṇyaṃ tathā gṛhaṃ. Chāṇ. 44; oft. used as first member of comp. in the sense of ‘wild’, ‘grown or produced in forest;’ ºbījaṃ wild seed; ºkārpāsī,...