Kartik (month) Dooj), it is celebrated with sisters entertaining their brothers, following the legend of Yamuna, who entertained her brother Yama on the same day. 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, ,
Roman calendar ancient Greek calendars; and the Gregorian calendar, which refined the Julian system to bring it into still closer alignment with the solar year and is the basis of the current international standard. Roman dates were counted inclusively forward to the next of three principal days: the first of the month (the kalends), a day less than the middle of the month (the ides), and eight days—nine, counting inclusively—before this (the nones). The original calendar consisted of 10 months beginning in spring with March; winter was left as an unassigned span of days. These months ran for 38 nundinal cycles, each