Definition of Jyaistha

1. Noun. The third month of the Hindu calendar.

Exact synonyms: Jeth
Group relationships: Hindu Calendar
Generic synonyms: Hindu Calendar Month

Lexicographical Neighbors of Jyaistha

Justinian
Justinian I
Justinian code
Justinian the Great
Justus
Jute
Jutes
Jutish
Jutland
Jutlander
Jutlanders
Jutlandic
Jutlandish
Juvenal
Juventas
Jyaistha (current term)
Jylland
Jynx
Jyothis
Jython
Jyutping
Jyväskylä
Jäger
Jägerbomb
Jägerbombs
Jèrriais
Jönköping
K
K'iche'
K's

Literary usage of Jyaistha

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Lok Sabha Debates. by India Parliament. Lok Sabha, India, Parliament, Lok Sabha (1839)
"The Lok Sabha then adjourned till Eleven of the Clock on Monday, May 28, 1990/ Jyaistha?, 1912 (Saka) Printed at : S. Narayan & Sons, Delhi-6. ..."

2. Rāja-çekhara's Karpūra-mañjarī: a drama by the Indian poet Rājaçekhara by Rājaśekhara, Sten Konow, Charles Rockwell Lanman (1901)
"It synchronizes with the full moon of Jyaistha. ... and the light half of Jyaistha. The scene of the play being in the south, we may suppose the lunar ..."

3. Publications by Oriental Translation Fund (1897)
"At length in the month Jyaistha, on the twelfth day of the dark fortnight, the Pleiads being in the ascendant, just after the twilight time, when the young ..."

4. A Classical Dictionary of India: Illustrative of the Mythology, Philosophy by John Garrett (1871)
"There are two great annual festivals in honour of the god, viz., the Suau-yatra in the mouth Jyaistha (May, June) and the Eath- ..."

5. Census of the Exact Sciences in Sanskrit by David Edwin Pingree (1994)
"... of Jyaistha in Sam. 1637 = 22 May 1580. Manuscripts: Baroda 9319. 77ff. Copied in Saka 1691 = AD 1769. ABSP 3849. ..."

6. Indo-Aryans: Contributions Towards the Elucidation of Their Ancient and by Raja Rājendralāla Mitra (1881)
"... gains wealth and jewels, but in Jyaistha, he encounters death. Should he begin it in the month of Ashadha, he will obtain slaves, jewels, cattle, ..."

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