Word origin · etymology
Sanskrit kuja, 'the son of the earth', a name of Mars (from ku, the earth, and ja, born or descended from), or maṅgala, another name of Mars, with doṣa, a fault or deficiency.
Wiktionary gives kuja as the son of the earth, the name of the planet Mars, and doṣa as a fault, deficiency, vice, blame, damage or mistake. Manglik is the Hindi form for a person with the condition; the page does not use it as a label.[4][5][6]
How we know · epistemology
A positional rule, with sources that disagree on its details
Where Mars stands under a stated rule is a fact of the chart that can be checked. The books and programs disagree on the houses, on the references and on what cancels it, and the page shows each choice by name. What the condition means for a marriage is the tradition's claim; Raman writes that it 'does not deserve that consideration which is now being paid to it'.[1][2][3]
Connected concepts
Sources & provenance
The numbers in the text point to this list; it distinguishes a calculation convention, a historical teaching and an editorial example.