Aranyani (अरण्यानी) combines the Sanskrit aranya (forest) and the feminine suffix. **The Vedic goddess of forests and the creatures of the wild** — celebrated in **Rig Veda 10.146**, one of the rare hymns to a female deity. The hymn describes her as elusive, **heard but seldom seen — laughing in twilight, singing through the trees**.
Featured in Rig Veda 10.146.
Aranyani reduces to four — the number of Vedic forest.