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Lot Essay
Nakshatras are Vedic horoscope charts, usually generated prior to arranging a marriage to ensure compatibility between the potential partners, or at the birth of a child to assist in the naming ceremony. They were generated by a yati, a kind of gurus who lived in Jain monasteries and maintained records of births, marriages and deaths within Jain communities, but did not necessarily subscribe to the philosophy and would often incorporate figures that typically associated with Hinduism into these charts.