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
Intercalary month (Egypt) Intercalary month (Egypt) The intercalary month or epagomenal days of the Egyptian, Coptic, and Ethiopian calendars are a period of five days in common years and six days in leap years in addition to those calendars' 12 standard months, sometimes reckoned as their thirteenth month. They originated as a periodic measure to ensure that the heliacal rising of Sirius would occur in the 12th month of the Egyptian lunar calendar but became a regular feature of the civil calendar and its descendants. Egyptian and Ethiopian leap days occur in the year preceding Gregorian leap years. The English names "intercalary month"