citta (6239)

citta
Entry 6239, Page 229, Col. 2

(citta, citta<h>1)
1 citta¦ (= Pali id., also citra, = AMg. citta, = Skt. caitra), n. of the first month of spring (as usually reckoned, but here called ‘the first month of summer’, evidently implying a division of the year into only three seasons, spring-summer constituting one season of four months; see Senart's note): grīṣmāṇa māse prathame cittasmiṃ (so, or cittesmiṃ, mss.; Senart em. caitrasmiṃ) Mv i.294.3 (vs).