Krittika, Kṛttikā, Kṛttika: 25 definitions
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The Sanskrit terms Kṛttikā and Kṛttika can be transliterated into English as Krttika or Krittika, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchKṛttikā (कृत्तिका):—[Die Uṇādi-Affixe 3, 145.] f. pl. Name eines Sternbildes, die Plejaden; bilden in der älteren Zeit das erste, in der späteren das dritte Mondhaus und haben Agni zum Regenten. Das aus sechs Sternen best. Sternbild wird bald als Flamme ( [KĀLIDĀSA im Śabdakalpadruma]), bald als Scheermesser ([Śabdakalpadruma] ohne Angabe einer Aut.) dargestellt. In der Mythologie sind die sechs Plejaden die Ammen des sechsantlitzigen Kriegsgottes. [Amarakoṣa 3, 4, 26, 201.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 109.] [Colebrooke I, 90. 107. II, 331. 358. 360.] [Akademische Vorlesungen 221. 264.] [Weber’s Verzeichniss 240, Nalopākhyāna 4.] [Weber’s Indische Studien 1, 87, Nalopākhyāna 1. 99. 240. 413. fg.] [Atharvavedasaṃhitā 9, 7, 3. 19, 7, 2.] [Taittirīyasaṃhitā 4, 4, 10, 1. 5, 3, 9, 1.] [The Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 2, 1, 2, 1. fgg.] [Kātyāyana’s Śrautasūtrāṇi 4. 7, 2.] [Śāṅkhāyana’s Śrautasūtrāṇi 2, 1, 7.] [Taittirīyabrāhmaṇa 3, 1, 1, 1.] [Yājñavalkya’s Gesetzbuch 1, 267.] [Mahābhārata 1, 2588. 3, 10663. 14429. 13, 1732. 3256.] [Harivaṃśa 158. 9875.] [Rāmāyaṇa 1, 38, 23.] [Suśruta 1, 106, 6. 2, 385, 1. 386, 8. 394, 1. 4.] [Raghuvaṃśa 14, 22.] [Kathāsaritsāgara 20, 88.] [Viṣṇupurāṇa 224. 226,] [Nalopākhyāna 21.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 6, 6, 23.] āśrame kṛttikānām [Mahābhārata 13, 1711.] kṛttikāmaghayoścaiva tīrtham [3, 8029.] kṛttikāṅgārake zur Zeit der Vereinigung des Mars mit den Plejaden [13, 1708.] mūlakṛttikān (so ist wohl zu lesen) [Vetālapañcaviṃśati 16, 18.] Im sg.: tridivaṃ kṛttikā gatā . nakṣatraṃ saptaśīrṣābhaṃ bhāti tadvahnidaivatam [Mahābhārata 3, 14464.] sāpi tatprāśanādeva citraketoradhārayat . garbhaṃ kṛtadyutirdevī kṛttikāgnerivātmajam .. [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 6, 14, 30.] Die appellative Bed. soll Wagen sein; vgl. den folg. Art. Der Form nach schliesst sich kṛttikā an kṛtti an; vielleicht stellte man sich das Sternbild als Fell dar. — Vgl. kārttika, kārttikika, kārttikeya .
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer FassungKṛttikā (कृत्तिका):—f. —
1) Pl. und (später) Sg. die Plejaden (in der älteren Zeit das erste , später des dritte Mondhaus ). Die sechs Plejaden personif. sind die Ammen Skanda's. kṛttikānāmāśramaḥ eine best. Einsiedelei. adva kṛttikā so v.a. heute steht der Mond in der Plejaden. kṛttikāmāghayostīrtham ein best. Tīrtha. kṛttikāṅgārake zur Zeit der Vereinigung des Mars mit den Plejaden. —
2) weisse Tüpfel Comm. zu [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhatsaṃhitā 65,5.] —
3) *Karren.
Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.
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Starts with (+4): Krittikabhava, Krittikacarini, Krittikacharini, Krittikadipa, Krittikadipavali, Krittikadipavidhi, Krittikagana, Krittikakriti, Krittikamahatmya, Krittikanakshatra, Krittikangaraka, Krittikanji, Krittikapinjara, Krittikapunja, Krittikapura, Krittikaputra, Krittikarya, Krittikasambhava, Krittikashrama, Krittikasthana.
Ends with: Pratikrittika, Vikrittika.
Full-text (+718): Karttikeya, Krittikasuta, Karttika, Dahanksha, Nagavithi, Krittikabhava, Mridutikshna, Meghayanti, Dula, Abhrayanti, Krittikanji, Nitatni, Anala, Kattiya, Krittikapinjara, Shushka, Dvadashivrata, Shushkavriksha, Krittikasambhava, Tvishiman.
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The Gautami Mahatmya (by G. P. Bhatt)
The Shiva Purana (by J. L. Shastri)
Chapter 4 - Search for Kārttikeya and his conversation with Nandin < [Section 2.4 - Rudra-saṃhitā (4): Kumāra-khaṇḍa]
Chapter 31 - Description of Creation (2) < [Section 5 - Umā-Saṃhitā]
Chapter 5 - Kārttikeya is crowned < [Section 2.4 - Rudra-saṃhitā (4): Kumāra-khaṇḍa]
Ramayana (by Manmatha Nath Dutt)
Chapter XXXVII < [Book 1 - Bāla-kāṇḍa]
The Agni Purana (by N. Gangadharan)
Chapter 196 - Vows relating to different asterisms (nakṣatra-vrata)
Chapter 126 - Combinations of good and bad asterisms (nakṣatra-nirṇaya)
Chapter 121 - The science of Jyotiṣa (Astronomy and Astrology) [jyotiḥśāstra]
List of Mahabharata people and places (by Laxman Burdak)
The Skanda Purana (by G. V. Tagare)
Chapter 28 - Preparations of Devas and Daityas for War < [Section 1 - Kedāra-khaṇḍa]
Chapter 261 - Dhyānayoga < [Section 1 - Tīrtha-māhātmya]
Appendix 1 - The story of Skanda’s birth < [Appendices]
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