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