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					Gimha,[Vedic grīṣma] I.(sg.) heat,in special application to the atmosphere:hot part (of the day or year),hot season,summer; a summer month.Always used in Loc.as a designation of time.1.of the day:VvA.40 (°samaye; v.l.gimhānamāse).-- 2.of summer:usually in combn w.and in contrast to hemanta winter:hemanta-gimhisu in w.& s.Dh.286 (cp.gimhika for °isu).Miln.274; Dpvs.I,55; Vism.231 (°âbhitatta worn out by the heat); Sdhp.275 (°kāle).In enumn w.other seasons:vasse hemante gimhe Nd2 631 (sadā); vasanta gimhādika utū PvA.135.-- 3.of a summer month; paṭhamasmiṁ gimhe Sn.233 (see KhA 192 for expln) -- II.(pl.) gimhā the hot months,the season of summer,in °naṁ pacchime māse,in the last month of summer M.I,79; S.III,141; V,50,321; Vv 795 (=āsāḷhimāse VvA.307).(Page 251)