Word origin · etymology
Sanskrit aṣṭa, eight, with kūṭa, the technical name of a factor in traditional matching.
Wiktionary gives aṣṭa as the Sanskrit numeral eight; Monier-Williams records the senses of kūṭa, which do not by themselves say why the matching term arose. Guna Milan is the same matching under another name: guṇa here means a point of the score.[3][4]
How we know · epistemology
Traditional matching rules applied by counting
Each score is arithmetic on the nakshatra and sign of two Moons by the tables of the chosen book, so it can be recomputed and checked; the books disagree on several tables (the classes of the signs, how Tara is counted, how Bhakoot reads two signs), and the page names the rule each answer follows. What a total means for two people is the tradition's claim and not a measured property of either chart.[1][2]
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Sources & provenance
The numbers in the text point to this list; it distinguishes a calculation convention, a historical teaching and an editorial example.