a. (kī f.) [ma se bhavaḥ ṭhañ] 1 Relating to a month.

2 Happen- ing every month, monthly.

3 Lasting for a month.

4 Payable in a month.

5 Engaged for a month. kaṃ A funeral rite or Śrāddha performed every new- moon (during the first year of a man's death); pitṝṇāṃ māsikaṃ śrāddha- manvāhāryaṃ vidurbudhāḥ.