MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Vartika mean?
Vartikā names both a lamp's wick and a paintbrush in Sanskrit. The brush sense occurs in the play Shakuntala, placing the word within the vocabulary of painting. The wick sense gives the same noun a connection with a flame sustained by oil.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
वर्तिका
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Vartika in Indian usage
2,591 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling वर्तिका.
The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1990s | 1,697 |
| Other decades | 894 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 2,013 |
| Rajasthan | 323 |
| Other states | 255 |
How to read these numbers
Small counts and a second count where needed are withheld for privacy; an omitted value is not zero. Coverage, dates and suppression.
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Sources
- Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001
- Monier-Williams, vartikā, p. 925,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: वर्तिका ↗ (opens in a new tab)
meaning
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.