śarád f. (prob. fr. √ śrā, śṝ) autumn (as the ‘time of ripening’), the autumnal season (the sultry season of two months succeeding the rains; in some parts of India comprising the months Bhādra and Āśvina, in other places Āśvina and Kārttika, fluctuating thus from August to November), [RV.] &c. &c.
a year (or pl. poetically for ‘years’, cf. varṣa), [ib.]