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Kartik (month)

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Karthikai, Kartika, Karthika or Kartik or Kartika maasam is a Hindu calendar month that typically overlaps October and November. [1]

44 relations: Amavasya, Ashtami, Balipratipada, Bengali calendars, Bhai Dooj, Chaturdashi, Chaturthi, Dashami, Dry season, Dwadashi, Dwitiya, Ekadashi, Govardhan Puja, Gregorian calendar, Guru Nanak Gurpurab, Hindu astrology, Hindu calendar, Indian astronomy, Indian national calendar, Indian units of measurement, Karthikai Deepam, Kartik (Nepali calendar), Kartik Purnima, Kṛttikā, Maithili language, Month, Navami, Nepal, Nepal Sambat, October, Panchami, Prathama (day), Purnima, Saptami, Scorpius, Shashthi (day), Tamil calendar, Tamils, Thrayodashi, Tritiya, Varanasi, Vikram Samvat, Yama, Yamuna.

Amavasya

Amāvásyā means New moon lunar phase in Sanskrit.

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Ashtami

Ashtami (अष्टमी aṣṭhamī) is the eighth day (Tithi) of Hindu lunar calendar.

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Balipratipada

(बालि प्रतिपदा,बळी-प्रतिपदा or पाडवा,ಬಲಿ ಪಾಡ್ಯಮಿ or) is the fourth day of Deepavali (Diwali), the Hindu festival of lights.

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Bengali calendars

The Bengali Calendar or Bangla Calendar (Baṅgābda) is a solar calendar used in the region of Bengal.

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Bhai Dooj

Bhai Dooj (भाई दूज) / Bhau-Beej / Bhai Tika / Bhai Phonta (ভাইফোঁটা) is a festival celebrated by Hindus of the Indian subcontinent, notably India and Nepal, on the second lunar day of Shukla Paksha (bright fortnight) in the Vikram Samvat Hindu calendar month of Kartika.

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Chaturdashi

In the Hindu calendar, Chaturdashi is the 14th day (Tithi) of the waxing phase or waning phase of the moon.

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Chaturthi

Chaturthi or Chaviti (Telugu: చతుర్థి or చవితి), is the fourth day (Tithi) of any lunar month in the Hindu calendar.

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Dashami

Dashami is the Sanskrit word for "ten", and is the tenth day in the lunar fortnight (Paksha) of the Hindu calendar.

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Dry season

The dry season is a yearly period of low rainfall, especially in the tropics.

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Dwadashi

Dwadashi (also Dvadasi or Dwadasi) (Sanskrit for Twelve) is the twelfth lunar day (Tithi) of the shukla (bright) or krishna (dark) fortnight of every lunar month in the Hindu calendar.

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Dwitiya

Dwitiya also referred to as Beej and Dooj is the Sanskrit word for "second", and is the second day in the lunar fortnight (Paksha) of the Hindu calendar.

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Ekadashi

'Ekādaśī (ekāhdaśī, "Eleven") एकादशी,, একাদশী,, ഏകാദശി also spelled as Ekadasi, is the eleventh lunar day (tithi) of each of the two lunar phases which occur in a Hindu calendar month - the Sukla Paksha (the period of the brightening moon also known as the waxing phase) and the Krishna Paksha (the period of the fading moon also known as the waning phase).

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Govardhan Puja

Goverdhan Puja, or Annakut or Annakoot (translated as “a mountain of food”) as it is also known, is a Hindu festival in which devotees prepare and offer a large variety of vegetarian food to the murtis of Paramatma(God) as a mark of gratitude.

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Gregorian calendar

The Gregorian calendar is the most widely used civil calendar in the world.

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Guru Nanak Gurpurab

Guru Nanak Gurpurab, also known as Guru Nanak's Prakash Utsav, celebrates the birth of the first Sikh Guru, Guru Nanak.

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Hindu astrology

Jyotisha (or Jyotishyam from Sanskrit, from "light, heavenly body") is the traditional Hindu system of astrology, also known as Hindu astrology, Nepalese Shastra, Indian astrology, and more recently Vedic astrology.

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Hindu calendar

Hindu calendar is a collective term for the various lunisolar calendars traditionally used in India.

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Indian astronomy

Indian astronomy has a long history stretching from pre-historic to modern times.

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Indian national calendar

The Indian national calendar, sometimes called the Shalivahana Shaka calendar, is used along with the Vikram Samvat calendar.

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Indian units of measurement

Before the introduction of the Metric system, one may divide the history of Indian systems of measurement into three main periods: the pre-Akbar's period, the period of the Akbar system, and the British colonial period.

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Karthikai Deepam

Karthikai Deepam or Karthikai Vilakkidu is a festival of lights that is observed by Hindus of Tamil Nadu, Sri Lanka and Kerala.

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Kartik (Nepali calendar)

Kartik (कार्तिक) is the seventh month in the Vikram Samvat, the official Calendar for Nepalese.

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Kartik Purnima

Kartika Purnima is a Hindu, Sikh and Jain holy festival, celebrated on the Purnima (full moon) day or the fifteenth lunar day of Kartik (November–December).

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Kṛttikā

The star cluster (Sanskrit: कृत्तिका, pronounced, popularly transliterated Krittika), sometimes known as Kārtikā, corresponds to the open star cluster called Pleiades in western astronomy; it is one of the clusters which makes up the constellation Taurus.

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Maithili language

Maithili (Maithilī) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Bihar and Jharkhand states of India and is one of the 22 recognised Indian languages.

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Month

A month is a unit of time, used with calendars, which is approximately as long as a natural period related to the motion of the Moon; month and Moon are cognates.

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Navami

Navami is the ninth day (tithi) of the fortnight (paksha) in the Hindu lunar calendar.

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Nepal

Nepal (नेपाल), officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal (सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल), is a landlocked country in South Asia located mainly in the Himalayas but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain.

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Nepal Sambat

Nepal Era (नेपाल सम्बत Nepāl Sambat) is the national lunar calendar of Nepal.

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October

October is the tenth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars and the sixth of seven months to have a length of 31 days.

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Panchami

Panchami is the fifth day (tithi) of the fortnight (paksha) in Hindu lunar calendar.

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Prathama (day)

Prathama is the Sanskrit word for "first", and is the first day in the lunar fortnight (Paksha) of the Hindu calendar.

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Purnima

Purnima (also called Poornima, Pournima, Bangla: পূর্ণিমা, Sanskrit: पूर्णिमा (IAST: pūrṇimā)) is the Indian and Nepali word for full moon, while in Indonesian it is known as Purnama.

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Saptami

Saptami is the seventh day (tithi) of the fortnight (paksha) in Hindu lunar calendar.

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Scorpius

Scorpius is one of the constellations of the zodiac.

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Shashthi (day)

Shashthi (Sanskrit) also referred to as Chhath is the sixth day or tithi of a Paksha or fourteen-day phase of the moon.

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Tamil calendar

The Tamil calendar is a sidereal Hindu calendar used in Tamil Nadu, India.

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Tamils

The Tamil people, also known as Tamilar, Tamilans, or simply Tamils, are a Dravidian ethnic group who speak Tamil as their mother tongue and trace their ancestry to the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, the Indian Union territory of Puducherry, or the Northern, Eastern Province and Puttalam District of Sri Lanka.

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Thrayodashi

Thrayodashi is the Sanskrit word for "thirteen", and is the thirteenth day in the lunar fortnight (Paksha) of the Hindu calendar.

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Tritiya

Tritiya (Sanskrit: 'third') is the third day in the lunar fortnight (Paksha) of the Hindu calendar.

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Varanasi

Varanasi, also known as Benares, Banaras (Banāras), or Kashi (Kāśī), is a city on the banks of the Ganges in the Uttar Pradesh state of North India, south-east of the state capital, Lucknow, and east of Allahabad.

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Vikram Samvat

Vikram Samvat (विक्रम सम्वत्, विक्रम सम्वत्) (abbreviated as V.S. (or VS) or B.S. (or BS))) (also called the Bikrami calendar or sometimes just Hindu calendar) is the historical Hindu calendar of India and Nepal. It uses lunar months and solar sidereal years. It is used as the official calendar in Nepal.

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Yama

Yama or Yamarāja is a god of death, the south direction, and the underworld, belonging to an early stratum of Rigvedic Hindu deities.

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Yamuna

The Yamuna (Hindustani: /jəmʊnaː/), also known as the Jumna, (not to be mistaken with the Jamuna of Bangladesh) is the longest and the second largest tributary river of the Ganges (Ganga) in northern India.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kartik_(month)

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