India has been famous for its traditions and cultures, it is known as the land of colours, religions and languages. A place where people love each other in spite of their differences in cultures or languages, always ready to help the other person, following the principles of give and take, and respecting the sovereignty of the country and contributing their togetherness towards the integrity of the nation. Also, India is the only country, where people firmly believe in the ritual of marriage, and take it as a relation for seven lives.

The match making process for marriages in India is very different from that of the dating processes of other countries. The country from its early ages has been following the tradition of matching the qualities or kundali’s of their children before tying them with the spiritual knot of marriage. Matrimonies in India are said to be built in heaven, and these processes are just a source to convert the god’s wishes into practise. Such are the believes of people in India, due to which they match the kundali’s of their children, a part of which they match their qualities and work profile, cultures, rituals, languages and religion.

Most of the Indians prefer doing the marriage of their children in the same religion or caste, inter- caste marriages are generally not preferred in the country, unless there is an exception of love marriage. These days, many parents’ permits their children to perform marriages inter- caste as a result of their pre-marriage love bonding. Although some of the religions like Sikhs and Muslims do not practise the procedure of matching Kundali’s or Horoscopes for their children marriage, but mainly all Hindus prefer matching horoscopes of their children before marriage.

The compatibility factor of a couple is derived from the position of the moon in the 27 nakshatras. Following are the few points which are kept in mind while matching horoscopes in a Hindu wedding:

 Varna means caste, the caste of the groom should be higher than that of the bride. Te order from the highest to the lowest caste as considered in the Indian caste syetem is: Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya and Shudra.

 Vashya means control, this factor determines who will be dominating, this is calculates on the basis of rashi or horoscope match, if the bride and the groom shares the same horoscope, then maximum of two points are given.

 Tara indicates the match levels of the nakshatras of the bride and the groom, the maximum, points given here are three.

 Yoni indicates the attraction that the couple would have between each other, which scores a maximum of four points, judged on the basis of the names of fourteen animals.

 Grah Maitri is the factor which describes the friendship quotient between the lords of the rashi’s of the bride and the groom, which gains a maximum of five points.

 Gana, derives the three qualities sattva, rajas and tamas, which defines the nature of the human being, and are represented by the Rakshasa, Manav and Deva. Bride having higher points in gana is ought to be a good match and a maximum of six points are given to match the couple’ compatibility.

 Bhakoota indicates the actual position of the moon within the horoscope sign of the respective bride and the groom. The points in this match are either seven or down to zero.

 Naadi means pulse, the three kinds of Naadi’s according to which a maximum of eight compatibility points are given are Adi (beginning), Madhya (middle) and Antya (end).

All these points are them summed up, maximum to which is 36, if the total is less than18, then the marriage is not permissible, and after that higher the qualities matches, chances of a successful marriage are higher respectively.

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