- [kārttikai] ''s.'' The eighth Hindu month, being part of November and De cember, ஓர்மாதம்.--''Note.'' The Saivas con sider it more sacred than other months, and may abstain from animal food dur ing the month, who at other times use it; and keep it as a season of fast in honor of the canonized pleiades, and their fost er son Skanda. Wils. p. 214. KARTTIKA. 2. The third lunar asterism; the pleiades, regarded as six stars, கிருத்்திகைநட்சத்திரம். 3. The third nacshatra. 4. The day or rather the duration of time during which the moon is in the கார்த்திகை nacshatra, கார்த்தி கைநாள். 5. The November-flower plant, காந்தன், Gloriosa superba, ''L.'' 6. (சது.) Durga, துர்க்கை.
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