= ಸಂಕ್ರಮ - 1, 2 & 4.

the change in the course of the sun from southward to northward.

a day on which this occurs.

a festival observed on that day; (but actually observed on 14th or 15th of January).

(fig.) a day on which or period during which an important change takes place.

any of the twelve arbitrary configuration of stars, usu. named after some object, animal or mythological being that they supposedly suggest in outline.