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Matrimony and jyotish glossary
74 terms from the world of Indian matchmaking — the kootas, the birth chart, the rishta, the wedding, the NRI paperwork, and the features on TrueSaath — each defined in a minute's reading.
Kundli matching
Jyotish and the birth chart
Matrimony and the rishta
The wedding
On TrueSaath
Safety
Dating
See the kootas on a real match
The free calculator scores all eight kootas from two sets of birth details and explains each one in the words used here.
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What does this glossary cover?
The vocabulary of Indian matchmaking: kundli matching and the eight kootas, jyotish terms like nakshatra, pada and rashi, the stages of a rishta and the wedding across communities, the immigration words NRI families use, safety terms, and the features on TrueSaath Matrimony and Dating.
Where do the definitions come from?
Standard published sources on Vedic astrology and the marriage customs of each community, written in plain English. Where a term describes what TrueSaath's calculator or product does, it says exactly that.
Can I look up a term I do not see here?
Ask through the help centre and it will be added if it is one other families ask about too.
Compatibility figures are the classical Guna Milan as computed by TrueSaath's free calculator and are offered as a reference, not as advice. Community and place pages describe how TrueSaath works; any member count shown is live and rounded, never a claim.