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ऋतु m. m. ([Uṇ. i, 72] ) any settled point of time, fixed time, time appointed for any action (esp. for sacrifices and other regular worship), right or fit time, [RV.] ; [AV.] ; [VS.]
f. an epoch, period (esp. a division or part of the year), season (the number of the divisions of the year is in ancient times, three, five, six, seven, twelve, thirteen, and twenty-four; in later time six seasons are enumerated, viz. वसन्त, ‘spring’; ग्रीष्म, ‘the hot season’; वर्षाs (f. pl. nom. ), ‘the rainy season’ शरद्, ‘autumn’; हेमन्त, ‘winter’; and शिशिर, ‘the cool season’; the seasons are not unfrequently personified, addressed in मन्त्रs, and worshipped by libations), [RV.] ; [AV.] ; [VS.] &c., [MBh.] ; [Mn.] &c.
symbolical expression for the number six, [VarBṛS.] ; [Sūryas.] &c.
the menstrual discharge (in women), the time after the courses (favourable for procreation; according to, [Bhpr.] sixteen days after their appearance), [Suśr.] ; [MBh.] ; [Mn.] &c.
sexual union at the above time, [Mn. ix, 93] ; [MBh.]
fixed order, order, rule ([[BRD.] ]), [RV. i, 162, 19]
light, splendour, [L.]
a particular mineral, [L.]
N. of a ऋषि
of the twelfth मनु.
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