Key facts
- Calendar
- Hindu calendar
- Number of days
- 29 or 30
- Season
- Sharada ( autumn )
- Gregorian equivalent
- October – November
- Significant days
- Chhath Diwali Guru Nanak Jayanti Karwa Chauth Karthika Deepam Kartik Poornima Prabodhini Ekadashi
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- IAST transliteration
- kārtika
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Kārtika, Karttika or Kartik is the eighth month of the Hindu lunar calendar and the Indian national calendar. The name of the month is derived from the position of the Moon near the Kṛttikā nakshatra (star) on the full moon day. The month corresponds to the autumn season and falls in October–November of the Gregorian calendar.
In the Hindu solar calendar, it corresponds to the month of Tula and begins with the Sun's entry into Libra. It corresponds to Kartik, the seventh month in the Bengali calendar, and Kartika, the seventh month in Vikram Samvat. In the Tamil calendar, it corresponds to the eighth month of Karthigai, falling in the Gregorian months of November–December. In the Vaishnav calendar, it corresponds to the eighth month of Damodara.