कृत्तिकाkṛttikā

कृत्तिका (kṛttikā) is a Sanskrit word meaning the Pleiads or the third lunar mansion, the six nymphs who became the nurses of Karttikeya, white spots, a vehicle or cart, the Pleiades constellation, forming the third lunar mansion, a vehicle, carriage, or cart. Its 14 recorded definitions are grouped into 3 contexts, among them The Kṛttikā Constellation (Pleiades) and associated mythology/astrology, Kṛttikā as a Vehicle or Cart, Kṛttikā as White Spots.

Etymology: E. कृत to cut, क्तिन् and कन् affixes; the figure of the asterism is a razor or knife
Definitions: 14

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Meanings by context

The Kṛttikā Constellation (Pleiades) and associated mythology/astrology

12 definitions

1. The Pleiads or the third lunar mansion. 2. The six nymphs who became the nurses of Karttikeya.

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

The third of the 27 lunar mansions, consisting of the Pleiades.

— Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

The six stars that acted as nurses to Kartikeya

— Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

the Pleiades, personified as the six nurses of Skanda

— Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. The third lunar mansion corresponding to the Pleiades. 2. A mythological nymph, one of the six nurses of Kartikeya.

— Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. The third of the twenty-seven constellations, consisting of six stars, the Pleiades. 2. Those six stars represented as six nymphs nursing Kartikeya, the god of war.

— Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. The Pleiades, the third lunar mansion consisting of six stars. 2. A mythological nymph, one of the six nurses of Karttikeya.

— Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

The third of the lunar mansions

— Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary

the Pleiads, personified as the nurses of Skanda

— Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

the Pleiades

— Lanman's Sanskrit Reader Vocabulary

1. The Pleiades constellation, forming the third lunar mansion. 2. A vehicle, carriage, or cart.

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872)

The six wives of the seven rishis, the Pleiads constellation

कृत्तिका (kṛttikā) [Printed book page 429-1]
Kṛttikā, pl. (°āḥ), the six wives of the seven ṛṣis,

name of a constellation (the Pleiads). § 116 (Vasu, pl.):

I, 66, 2588 (°ābhyupapatteś ca Kārttikeya iti smṛtaḥ, sc.

Skanda).—§ 370 (Tīrthayātrāp.): III, 84, 8029 (°-Maghayoś

caiva tīrthaṃ).—§ 412 (Aṣṭāvakrīya): III, 134, †10663

(ṣaṭ).—§ 488 (Āṅgirasa): III, 217, 14103 (Radrāc ca

sambhūto Gaṅgāyāṃ K°āsu ca, sc. Skanda).—§ 501 (Skando-

pākhyāna): III, 229, 14429 (Pāvakasyendriyaṃ Śvete

K°ābhiḥ kṛtaṃ nage).—§ 502 (Manuṣyagrahak.): III, 230,

14464 (when Svāhā had assumed the forms of the six wives

of the saptarṣis and cohabited with Agni, and Skanda was

born, their husbands divorced them; then they adopted

Skanda, rose to the sky, and became a nakṣatra—tridivaṃ

K°ā gatā nakṣatraṃ saptaśīrṣābhaṃ bhāti tad Vahni-

daivataṃ).—§ 509 (Kārttikeyastava): III, 232, 14642

(Svāhā-Mahī-K°ānāṃ, sc. sutaḥ, i.e. Skanda).—§ 574

(Jambūkh.): VI, 3, 96 (sg. °āṃ pīḍayaṃs tīkṣṇair nakṣatraṃ,

sc. Ṛāhu, omens).—§ 592 (Saṃśaptakavadhap.): VII, 20,

809 (°yogayuktena paurṇamāsyāṃ ivendunā).—§ 615u (Skanda):

IX, 44, 2459, 2462 (reared Skanda); 46, 2717 (°ānāṃ,

sc. sutaḥ, i.e. Skanda).—§ 656 (Khaḍgotpattik.): XII, 166,

6201 (°ās tasya nakṣatram Aser Agniś ca daivataṃ).—§ 733f

(Mahāgaṅgā): XIII, 25, 1708 (°āṅgārake, name of a tīrtha?,

at the conjunction of the Kṛttikās and Aṅgāraka, i.e. the

planet Mars, BR.).—§ 733k (Vaimānika): XIII, 25, 1711

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(°ānām āśrame, a tīrtha).—§ 733u (Punarāvartanandā): XIII,

25, 1732 (°yoge).—§ 746 (Ānuśāsanik.): XIII, 64, 3256

(merit of gifts of food made under the nakṣatra K.).—§ 747b

(Suvarṇotpatti): XIII, 85, 4097 (reared Skanda, who therefore

was called Kārttikeya).—§ 748b (Tārakavadhop.): XIII, 86,

4190, 4193, 4195 (reared Skanda), 4198.—§ 749 (Ānuśāsanik.):

XIII, 89α, 4256 (°yoge).—§ 759 (do.): XIII, 90, 5390

(description of the candravrata).

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— Index to the Names in the Mahabharata

Kṛttikā as a Vehicle or Cart

1 definition

a vehicle or cart

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Kṛttikā as White Spots

1 definition

white spots

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

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Definitions on this page come from 11 works: Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Index to the Names in the Mahabharata, Lanman's Sanskrit Reader Vocabulary, Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872), Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899), Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary. Text from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon.