f. [kṛta-ktin] 1 Skin, hide (in general); Mu. 3. 20.

2 Especial- ly, the hide of an antelope on which a religious student sits.

3 The bark of the birch-tree used for writing upon &c.

4 The birch-tree.

5 One of the lunar mansions, Pleiades.

6 A house. Comp. vāsaḥ, vāsasa m. an epithet of Śiva; sa kṛttivāsā- stapase yatātmā Ku. 1. 54; M. 1. 1.