kṛtti कृत्ति kṛ́tti f. skin, hide, [RV. viii, 90, 6]; [VS.]; [AV.] a garment made of skin (fr. √ 3. kṛt?), [Nir. v, 22] the hide or skin on which the religious student sits or sleeps, &c. (usually the skin of an antelope), [W.] the birch tree, [L.] the bark of the birch tree (used for writing upon, for making hooka pipes, &c.), [W.] (= kṛ́ttikā) one of the lunar mansions (the Pleiads), [L.] a house, [Naigh. iii, 4] (probably with reference to, [RV. viii, 90, 6]; but cf. kuṭī) food, [Nir. v, 22] fame (yaśas), [ib.]; [cf. Hib. cart; Lat. cortex.] kṛ́tti , kṛ́ttikā. See √ 2. kṛt. kṛttikā कृत्तिका kṛ́ttikā f. pl. (rarely sg. [MBh. iii, 14464]; [BhP. vi, 14, 30]), N. of a constellation (the Pleiads, originally the first, but in later times the third lunar mansion, having Agni as its regent; this constellation, containing six stars, is sometimes represented as a flame or as a kind of razor or knife; for their oldest names See [TS. iv, 4, 5, 1]; in mythol. the six Kṛttikās are nymphs who became the nurses of the god of war, Kārttikeya), [AV.]; [TS.]; [ŚBr.] &c. white spots, [VarBṛS. lxv, 5], Sch. a vehicle, cart, [ŚBr. xiii], Sch. kṛttiratha कृत्तिरथ kṛtti—ratha m. N. of a prince, [R. i, 73, 8] and [9.] kṛttivāsa कृत्तिवास kṛtti—vāsa m. = -vāsas, in comp. kṛttikāñji कृत्तिकाञ्जि (°kāñ) mfn. having white spots, [ŚBr. xiii, 4, 2, 4]; [KātyŚr.] kṛttivāsas कृत्तिवासस् kṛ́tti—vāsas (kṛ́tti-), m. ‘covered with a skin’, N. of Rudra-Śiva, [VS. iii, 61]; [MBh.]; [Kum.]; [Mālav.] kṛ́tti—vāsas (ās), f. N. of Durgā, [Hariv. 3285.] kṛttikābhava कृत्तिकाभव kṛttikā—bhava m. ‘being in the lunar mansion Kṛttikā’, N. of the moon, [L.] kṛttikāsuta कृत्तिकासुत kṛttikā—suta m. ‘son of the Kṛttikās’, N. of Skanda or Kārttikeya (the nymphs called Kṛttikās being his foster-mothers), [L.] kṛttipattrī कृत्तिपत्त्री kṛtti—pattrī f. a species of Karañja, [Gal.] kṛttikāpiñjara कृत्तिकापिञ्जर kṛttikā—piñjara mfn. red with white spots, [Hcar.] kṛttikāsambhava कृत्तिकासम्भव kṛttikā—sambhava m. id., [Gal.] kṛttivāseśvaraliṅga कृत्तिवासेश्वरलिङ्ग kṛtti—vā°seśvara-liṅga n. N. of a Liṅga, [SkandaP.]