Kartika is a month

Month

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 of Hindu

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 and Bengali calendar

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s, named after the Hindu

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 god, Kartikeya.

In the lunar Hindu calendar, Kartika begins with the new moon in November and is the eighth month of the year except in Gujarat, where it marks the new year that falls on Diwali

Diwali

Diwali or DeepavaliThe name of the festival in various regional languages include:, , , , , , , , , , , , , popularly known as the "festival of lights," is a festival celebrated between mid-October and mid-December for different reasons...

. In the solar religious calendar used in Tamil Nadu, Kartikai begins with the Sun

Sun

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's entry into Scorpio and is the eight month of the year.

In the Vaishnava calendar, Damodara governs this month.

Indian national calendar

In the reformed Indian national civil calendar

Indian national calendar

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, Kartika is the eighth month of the year and begins on 23 October and ends on 21 November. [Dates are not fixed like 23rd Oct to 21st Nov. It is based on the position of the moon]

Festivals

Diwali

Diwali

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 falls in this month. The festival of Kartik Poornima

Kartik Poornima

Kartik Poornima is a Hindu holy day celebrated on the full moon day or the fifteenth lunar day of Kartik . It is also known as Tripuri poornima and Tripurari Poornima. It is sometimes called Deva-Diwali or Deva-Deppawali - the festival of lights of the gods...

 (15th day Full Moon) falls in this month, celebrated as Dev Deepavali in Varanasi

Varanasi

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. This coincides with the nirvana of the Jain Tirthankara - Mahavira and the birth of the Sikh Guru Nanak Guru Nanak Jayanti. And also, the well known festival, for the god of Sabarimalai, Ayyappan's garland festival. In Kartika, the swamys will start their fasting, on various dates depending on your temple. Swamiye Saranam Ayyappa !

Bangla calendar

Kartika (কার্ত্তিক Kartik) is the seventh month

Month

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 of the Bengali Calendar

Bengali calendar

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 used in Bangladesh

Bangladesh

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 and eastern India

India

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. It begins in mid-October

October

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of the Gregorian calendar

Gregorian calendar

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. The name of the month is derived from the name of the star Krittika

Krittika

The star cluster ', sometimes known as Kārtikā, corresponds to the open star cluster Pleiades in Indian astronomy and...

 (কৃত্তিকা). In the Bikram Sambat in use in Nepal

Nepal

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, Kartika is the seventh month, beginning on 18 October and lasting until 15 November.

Shukla Paksha	Krishna Paksha
1. Prathama Prathama Prathama Blood Centre is blood bank situated at Ahmedabad, jointly established in 2000, by Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation and Advanced Transfusion Medicine Research Foundation as non-profit voluntary organization...	1. Prathama
2. Dwitiya Dwitiya Dwitiya is the Sanskrit word for "second", and is the second day in the lunar fortnight of the Hindu calendar. Each month has two Dwitiya days, being the second day of the "bright" and of the "dark" fortnights respectively...	2. Dwitiya
3. Tritiya Tritiya Tritiya is the Sanskrit word for "three", and is the third day in the lunar fortnight of the Hindu calendar. Each month has two Tritiya days, being the third day of the "bright" and of the "dark" fortnights respectively...	3. Tritiya
4. Chaturthi Chaturthi Chaturthi or Chaviti , is the fourth day of any lunar month in the Hindu calendar.-Festivals of Chaturthi:* Ganesh Chaturthi is one of prominent Chaturthi on which Lord Ganesha makes his presence on the earth....	4. Chaturthi
5. Panchami Panchami Panchami is the fifth day of the fortnight in Hindu lunar calendar.-Festivals:Nag Panchami is a Hindu festival celebrated by Hindus in most parts of India. It is celebrated in Shravan month. On this day, people worship Nāga Devata . People go to temples and snake pits and worship the snakes...	5. Panchami
6. Shashti Shashti Shashti is the sixth day or tithi of a pakSha or fourteen-day phase of the moon. The word comes from the Sanskrit cardinal ShaRh , whence the ordinal number ShaShTha , fem...	6. Shashti
7. Saptami Saptami Saptami is the seventh day of the fortnight in Hindu lunar calendar.-Festivals:Ratha Saptami: Lord Vishnu in his form as Surya is usually worshiped on this day...	7. Saptami
8. Ashtami Ashtami - Festivals :Krishna Janmashtami or Gokul Ashtami: is a Hindu festival celebrating the birth of Lord Krishna, an avatar of Hindu deity Vishnu.Krishna Janmashtami is observed on the Ashtami tithi, the eighth day of the dark half or Krishna Paksha of the month of Bhaadra in the Hindu calendar, when...	8. Ashtami
9. Navami Navami -Festivals:* Sri Rama Navami is a Hindu festival, celebrating of the birth of Lord Rama. It is celebrated in Chaitra month .* Swaminarayan Jayanti is a Hindu Fesival celebrating the birth of Lord Swaminarayan.It is celebrated in Chaitra month on the ninth day which actually falls onto Sri Rama...	9. Navami
10.Dashami Dashami Dashami is the Sanskrit word for "ten", and is the tenth day in the lunar fortnight of the Hindu calendar. Each month has two Dashami days, being the tenth day of the "bright" and of the "dark" fortnights respectively...	10.Dashami
11.Ekadashi Ekadashi Ekadashi , also spelled as Ekadasi, is the eleventh lunar day of the shukla or krishna paksha of every lunar month in the Hindu calendar . In Hinduism and Jainism it is considered a spiritually beneficial day...	11.Ekadashi
12.Dwadashi	12.Dwadashi
13.Thrayodashi Thrayodashi Thrayodashi is the Sanskrit word for "thirteen", and is the thirteenth day in the lunar fortnight of the Hindu calendar. Each month has two Thrayodashi days, being the thirteenth day of the "bright" and of the "dark" fortnights respectively...	13.Thrayodashi
14.Chaturdashi Chaturdashi In the Hindu calendar, Chaturdashi is the 14th day of the waxing phase or waning phase of the moon. This is the day prior to new moon or full moon...	14.Chaturdashi
15.Pournima Full Moon Full moon is a lunar phase.Full Moon may also refer to:- Literature :* Full Moon , a novel by P. G. Wodehouse* Full Moon o Sagashite or Full Moon, a manga* Full Moon Press, an American small-press publisher...	15. Amavasya Amavasya Amavasya is the Indian name for a New moon. The word Amavasya is common to many Indian languages especially Sanskrit, Hindi, Assamese, Kannada, Bengali, Konkani, Marathi, Oriya, Telugu, and Gujarati...

See also

• Hindu units of measurement
  Hindu units of measurement
  Vedic and Puranic units of time span from the Paramáńu to the mahamanvantara . Its clearly given in Hindu Vedic knowledge that the creation and destruction of the universe is a cyclical process and the timespan of the universe is 311.04 trillion years...
  
  
• Hindu astronomy
  Hindu astronomy
  Historical Indian astronomy develops as a discipline of Vedanga or one of the "auxiliary disciplines" associated with the study of the Vedas.The oldest extant text of astronomy is the treatise by Lagadha, dated to the Mauryan era ....
  
  
• Jyotish

External links

• Festivals in Karthika masam