Kartik (month) Kartik (month) Karthikai, Kartika, Karthika or Kartik or Kartika maasam is a Hindu calendar month that typically overlaps October and November. In the Bengali it is the 7th month, Tamil 8th month), Maithili (7th month) and Nepali calendar (7th month), In the reformed Indian national civil calendar, Kartika is the eighth month of the year. It corresponds with the months of October/November in the Gregorian Calendar It is written as "Kartik", "Kārtika", "Kārtak", , maithili: कातिक, , , , , . Kartika (কার্ত্তিক) is the seventh month of the Bengali Calendar. It begins in mid-"October" of the Gregorian calendar. The
Month the months at the end of each year. A period of four years ending on a leap day was to be called a "Franciade". It began at the autumn equinox: Purushottam Maas or Adhik Maas is an extra month in the Hindu calendar that is inserted to keep the lunar and solar calendars aligned. "Purushottam" is an epithet of Vishnu, to whom the month is dedicated. Month A month is a unit of time, used with calendars, which is approximately as long as a natural period related to the motion of the Moon; "month" and "Moon" are cognates. The traditional