The eighth month of the Hindu calendar.
1Even this is my opinion, In the lighted fortnight of the month of Karttika in especial, one should abstain from honey and meat.
2CIT., p. 160 Saka 1349 current, cyclic year Parabhava, on the full moon day of the month Karttika.
3He who abstains for the whole month of Karttika from meat of every kind, transcends all kinds of woe and lives in complete happiness.
4Hence I think that he must have been present at the New Year festivities in Karttika, not at the Mahanavami in Asvina, a month previous.
5But the new moon of Rajab in A.D. 1443 corresponded to the new moon of KARTTIKA, not to that of ASVINA.