jyeshtha

ज्येष्ठ jyeṣṭha

Jyeshtha is the third lunar month, roughly May–June, marked by Ganga Dussehra and the waterless fast of Nirjala Ekadashi.

Where this term appears

Reading the Hindu Calendar Treatise
There are twelve: Chaitra , Vaishakha , Jyeshtha , Ashadha , Shravana , Bhadrapada , Ashvina , Kartika , Margashirsha , Pausha , Magha , and Phalguna .
Dhumavati: The Widow Made of Smoke Treatise
…e dark elder sister of the goddess of fortune; behind Alakshmi stands Jyeshtha , "the elder," the inauspicious goddess of an older stratum of worship; and behind Jyeshtha stands the Vedic Nirriti , the personif…