कृत्तिः _kṛttiḥ

कृत्तिः f. [कृत्-क्तिन्]

1 Skin, hide (in general); Mu.3.2.

-2 Especially, 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. -वासः, -वासस् m. an epithet of Śiva; स कृत्ति- वासास्तपसे यतात्मा Ku.1.54; M.1.1.