ashtakoot · guna milan score
25 Out of 36 Guna Milan: What a 25 Is Made Of
630 of 11,664 pairings · 5.4% · strict reading
Guna milan compares two Moon positions, and there are only 108 of them — 27 nakshatras of four padas each — so every possible pairing can be scored. Of the 11,664 bride-and-groom pairings, 427 total exactly 25 and 203 total 25.5, on the strict reading that takes the bottom of the two kootas whose middle grades lineages dispute. Together that is 5.4% of all pairings; 20.2% score 25 or more and 79.8% score less. On the generous reading of the same two kootas, 594 pairings land on 25 or 25.5.
Families commonly read 25 as “good”, the band between 25 and 32; it clears the 18 that many treat as the minimum. That threshold and those bands are a convention, not a rule in any classical text, and a total says nothing about which kootas it lost — which is what follows.
What a 25 Usually Loses
Averaged over the 630 pairings at 25 and 25.5, the guna lost to each koota are: Yoni 2.99 of 4, Graha Maitri 2.68 of 5, Bhakoot 1.47 of 7, Vashya 1.41 of 2, Gana 1.01 of 6, Tara 1 of 3, Varna 0.3 of 1 and Nadi 0 of 8. So a 25 is mostly made by what Yoni, Graha Maitri, Bhakoot, Vashya, Gana and Tara take away. Every pairing at 25 scores full Nadi.
| Koota | Out of | Scores 0 | Scores full |
|---|---|---|---|
| Varna | 1 | 29.5% | 70.5% |
| Vashya | 2 | 70.3% | 29.7% |
| Tara | 3 | 0.0% | 33.7% |
| Yoni | 4 | 5.7% | 2.2% |
| Graha Maitri | 5 | 0.6% | 28.4% |
| Gana | 6 | 7.3% | 54.0% |
| Bhakoot | 7 | 21.0% | 79.0% |
| Nadi | 8 | 0.0% | 100.0% |
Nadi and Bhakoot at 25
None of the pairings at 25 has Nadi dosha: every one scores Nadi’s full eight. 132 (21.0%) score nothing on Bhakoot, and 92 of those have the sign lords that cancel it. A 25 with Nadi dosha and a 25 without it are different matches that print the same number, which is why the total alone is never the reading.
Which Birth Stars Produce a 25
61 pairs of birth stars produce 25 or 25.5 for at least one combination of padas and direction. The most frequent: Ardra and Swati (32), Pushya and Revati (32), Ashwini and Purva Ashadha (24), Swati and Purva Bhadrapada (24), Rohini and Uttara Bhadrapada (16), Mrigashira and Revati (16), Bharani and Ardra (16), Ardra and Uttara Bhadrapada (16). Each pair’s page shows all sixteen pada combinations scored both ways.
To see whether your own total is a 25, and which kootas it lost, you need both Moon positions. The Free Kundli Matching tool gives the eight koota scores and the total, which is the headline answer; the Kundali Milan detailed report works the same arithmetic further from your own birth details, and its page lists what it contains.
24 out of 36 · every total · 26 out of 36. For how the eight kootas work, see the 36 gunas explained and the kundli milan guide. In Hindi: 36 में से 25 गुण.