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वान vāna, vulg. vān, bān (fr. vana), adj. Belonging or relating to a wood or forest;—relating to a dwelling in a wood or to a house, etc.;—s.m. A number of woods, a collection of groves or thickets:—vān-prasth, vulg. bānprasth, s.m. A Brāhmaṇof the third order who has passed through the stages of student and householder and has left his house and family for the forest (see āśram); a hermit, an anchorite;—the tree Bassia latifolia;—the palās-tree, Butea frondosa.