Same Nakshatra Marriage: Guna Milan Score for All 27 Stars

The eight kootas of Ashtakoot Guna Milan do not rule out a match in which both partners were born under the same nakshatra. They score it. When the two Moons are in the same pada as well, every koota comes out full except one, and the total is 28 of 36. The 8 guna that go missing are all Nadi’s: one birth star has one nadi, and a shared nadi is Nadi Dosha.

For sixteen of the 27 stars, that is also the score for any two padas. Nine others sit across the line between two signs, so two people with the same star can still have different Moon signs if their padas differ. For them the score depends on the pada, and when the two padas fall on opposite sides of the line it drops as low as 14. The remaining two lose a guna or two at the middle of their sign. The tables below give every case, worked from the same functions the site’s nakshatra matching pages use.

Where the 28 Comes From

For two Moons in the same nakshatra and the same sign, each koota reads as follows. The column on the right is the reason, and every reason comes down to the two inputs being identical.

Tara, Yoni, Gana and Nadi read the birth star itself, so for a same-star pair they never move, whatever the padas: the first three full, Nadi at zero. The other four, Varna, Vashya, Graha Maitri and Bhakoot, read the Moon sign, and as long as the two Moons share a sign and its vashya group they are full as well. That is why the figure does not change from one star to the next. Two Ashwini Moons and two Revati Moons score alike, even though one pair shares the Horse yoni and the other the Elephant, because the test is whether the two match.

The Nadi Zero, and the Exception It Meets

A zero in Nadi is the largest single deduction in Ashtakoot, and it is the reason the question gets asked. The matching tables on this site, following the classical rules, hold Nadi Dosha cancelled in three cases: both partners share the nakshatra but not the pada, both Moons are in the same rashi, or the two Moon signs share a lord. A same-star pair always meets at least one of them. With different padas, the first applies. With the same pada, the two Moons are in the same sign, so the second applies.

The cancellation does not put the eight guna back. The koota still scores zero, and every total on this page counts it at zero. Cancelling a dosha is a judgement about how much weight the zero carries, and re-scoring the koota would be a different claim. Same star and same pada means two Moon positions that are identical as far as Ashtakoot can see. That case is covered by the shared-sign exception, and so by the shared-lord one, but not by the different-pada one. The Nadi koota page shows what the koota compares and how often it scores nothing across every Moon pairing.

Beyond the eight kootas, regional matching practice has its own customs about a shared birth star, and they vary from one community to another. This page reports only what the Ashtakoot arithmetic returns.

Nine Stars That Cross a Sign Line

A nakshatra is 13°20′ and a sign is 30°, so nine stars start in one sign and finish in the next. A pada never crosses the line, which is why the pada fixes the Moon sign when the star alone does not. Two partners in the same one of these stars, on opposite sides of the line, have Moon signs next to each other. That is the 2/12 distance, one of the three Bhakoot forbids, and it costs all seven of Bhakoot’s guna. Varna, Vashya and Graha Maitri can drop as well, because they also read the sign.

Punarvasu comes out lowest, at 14 to 16, when one partner’s Moon is in pada 4 (Cancer) and the other’s is in Gemini. Chitra holds up best, at 20 to 21, because Virgo and Libra share the Manav vashya group and their lords, Mercury and Venus, are mutual friends, so only Varna and Bhakoot drop. Across the line, Punarvasu falls below the conventional 18 on every reading. Part of each range is the direction of the match. Varna asks for the groom’s varna to be equal to or above the bride’s, and two neighbouring signs never share one, so it scores nothing with the bride’s Moon in the sign of the higher varna and its one guna the other way round. The rest, where there is any, is the Vashya grading that published tables disagree on.

The Bhakoot dosha has two classical exceptions of its own: the two signs share a lord, or their lords are mutual friends. Three of the nine meet one, and Dhanishta is the only star whose two signs have the same lord, Saturn. For Krittika, Punarvasu, Uttara Phalguni, Vishakha, Uttara Ashadha and Purva Bhadrapada, neither exception applies. As with Nadi, the exception is a judgement about the zero, not a change to it, and the totals in the table already count Bhakoot at zero.

Two Stars Where the Middle of the Sign Matters

Of the eighteen single-sign stars, sixteen score 28 for every pada pair. The two that do not are Purva Ashadha and Shravana. Sagittarius and Capricorn are the two signs whose vashya group changes at 15°, and these two stars lie across that point. In Purva Ashadha (Sagittarius), pada 1 is counted Manav and padas 2–4 Chatushpada. In Shravana (Capricorn), padas 1–2 are counted Chatushpada and padas 3–4 Jalachar. A partner on one side and a partner on the other score 26 to 27, not 28. In each star one pada, pada 1 of Purva Ashadha and pada 2 of Shravana, itself contains the 15° point. The site files it by where it begins and flags that only the exact degree settles it. Published tables also grade the mixed result differently, so the site reports Vashya as a range there.

All 27 Stars at a Glance

A single figure in the last column means every pada pair gives it. A range means the padas matter, for one of the two reasons above. To find which pada a Moon is in, the nakshatra finder gives the star and pada from a birth date, time and time zone, and the kundli matching tool scores two of them koota by koota.

What the Score Does Not Cover

Ashtakoot uses the Moon and nothing else, so two people with the same star and pada are, to it, the same person. It does not look at the seventh house of either chart, at Venus or Mars, at Mangal Dosha, or at the running dashas. The 36 gunas explained covers what each koota is read for, and the kundli milan guide shows how the totals are spread across every possible pair. For a shared Moon sign with different stars, the compatibility pages for the twelve doubled signs give the sign-level kootas, and the nakshatra matching pair pages compare the two stars.

In Brief

• Same star, same sign: 28 of 36, with Nadi the only zero, except across the mid-sign Vashya split in Purva Ashadha and Shravana
• Nadi Dosha: always present for a shared star, and always meets one of the cancellations the site’s tables apply
• Same star, different signs: possible on nine stars only, where the 2/12 Bhakoot takes the total to 14–21
• Not covered: anything in the two charts beyond the Moon