The Sanskrit term Śītakāla can be transliterated into English as Sitakala or Shitakala, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Hinduism

Ayurveda (science of life)

Source: archive.org: Vagbhata’s Ashtanga Hridaya Samhita (first 5 chapters)

Śītakāla (शीतकाल) refers to the “cold season”, and is mentioned in verse 2.11 of the Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā (Sūtrasthāna) by Vāgbhaṭa.—The term śītakāla (~graṅ-bai dus) (“cold season”) comprises hemanta “winter” (mid-November to mid-January) and śiśira (“pre-spring”: mid-January to mid-March). Both seasons are often regarded as a unit, especially in the Brahmanas (hemantaśiśirau PW VII.1655).

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Āyurveda (आयुर्वेद, ayurveda) is a branch of Indian science dealing with medicine, herbalism, taxology, anatomy, surgery, alchemy and related topics. Traditional practice of Āyurveda in ancient India dates back to at least the first millenium BC. Literature is commonly written in Sanskrit using various poetic metres.

In Buddhism

Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)

Source: De Gruyter: A Buddhist Ritual Manual on Agriculture

Śitakāla (शितकाल) refers to the “time of cold spells”, according to the Vajratuṇḍasamayakalparāja, an ancient Buddhist ritual manual on agriculture from the 5th-century (or earlier), containing various instructions for the Sangha to provide agriculture-related services to laypeople including rain-making, weather control and crop protection.—Accordingly [after Sāgara taught the Nāga-vow mantra], “O Bhagavān, this is my Nāga vow mantra. It is uttered for the sake of warding off and impelling all hostile Nāgas in the last time, in the last age. These mantras should be called to mind at the time of too much rain, drought, cold spells [e.g., śitakāla], heatwaves and thunderbolt rain. By this all Nāgas will be impelled. [...]”.

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Mahayana (महायान, mahāyāna) is a major branch of Buddhism focusing on the path of a Bodhisattva (spiritual aspirants/ enlightened beings). Extant literature is vast and primarely composed in the Sanskrit language. There are many sūtras of which some of the earliest are the various Prajñāpāramitā sūtras.

Languages of India and abroad

Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

śītakāla (शीतकाल).—m (S) The cold season: also the six months of the cold and the rainy seasons.

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Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Śītakāla (शीतकाल).—the cold season, winter.

Derivable forms: śītakālaḥ (शीतकालः).

Śītakāla is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms śīta and kāla (काल).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Śītakāla (शीतकाल).—n.

(-laṃ) Cold weather, winter. E. śīta, and kāla time.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Śītakāla (शीतकाल):—[=śīta-kāla] [from śīta] m. the cold season, [Suśruta; Ṛtusaṃhāra; Varāha-mihira’s Bṛhat-saṃhitā etc.]

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Śītakāla (शीतकाल):—[śīta-kāla] (laṃ) 1. n. Winter.

[Sanskrit to German]

Shitakala in German

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Śītakāla (ಶೀತಕಾಲ):—[noun] the winter season.

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Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Sita, Kala.

Full-text: Shitakalina, Akrand, Sita.

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