The definition of marriage is “Union of body, mind and soul” and the rituals associated with marriage is what is normally understood as getting married by the common people. Child marriages are not real marriages unless they had the union as defined above. Most of the questions on this topic is without really understanding the definitions of various terms in astrology. So is the usage of the word ‘foreign settlement”. Astrology does not endorse countries which are man made and the whole globe is treated as one unit(Earth) for settlement. Similarly remedies by manthra, tantra or yanthras are all meaningless and astrologers use it for making profit.
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