ashtakoot · guna milan score
29 Out of 36 Guna Milan: What a 29 Is Made Of
84 of 11,664 pairings · 0.7% · 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, 8 total exactly 29 and 76 total 29.5, on the strict reading that takes the bottom of the two kootas whose middle grades lineages dispute. Together that is 0.7% of all pairings; 3.4% score 29 or more and 96.6% score less. On the generous reading of the same two kootas, 372 pairings land on 29 or 29.5.
Families commonly read 29 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 29 Usually Loses
Averaged over the 84 pairings at 29 and 29.5, the guna lost to each koota are: Yoni 2.88 of 4, Tara 1.36 of 3, Vashya 1.07 of 2, Gana 0.76 of 6, Graha Maitri 0.31 of 5, Varna 0.17 of 1, Bhakoot 0 of 7 and Nadi 0 of 8. So a 29 is mostly made by what Yoni, Tara, Vashya and Gana take away. Every pairing at 29 scores full Bhakoot and Nadi.
| Koota | Out of | Scores 0 | Scores full |
|---|---|---|---|
| Varna | 1 | 16.7% | 83.3% |
| Vashya | 2 | 53.6% | 46.4% |
| Tara | 3 | 0.0% | 9.5% |
| Yoni | 4 | 9.5% | 7.1% |
| Graha Maitri | 5 | 0.0% | 84.5% |
| Gana | 6 | 0.0% | 66.7% |
| Bhakoot | 7 | 0.0% | 100.0% |
| Nadi | 8 | 0.0% | 100.0% |
Nadi and Bhakoot at 29
None of the pairings at 29 has Nadi dosha: every one scores Nadi’s full eight. None has Bhakoot dosha. A 29 with Nadi dosha and a 29 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 29
13 pairs of birth stars produce 29 or 29.5 for at least one combination of padas and direction. The most frequent: Krittika and Shatabhisha (12), Rohini and Purva Bhadrapada (12), Ardra and Chitra (8), Mula and Dhanishta (8), Purva Bhadrapada and Revati (8), Purva Ashadha and Purva Bhadrapada (7), Mrigashira and Uttara Phalguni (6), Vishakha and Dhanishta (6). Each pair’s page shows all sixteen pada combinations scored both ways.
To see whether your own total is a 29, 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.
28 out of 36 · every total · 30 out of 36. For how the eight kootas work, see the 36 gunas explained and the kundli milan guide. In Hindi: 36 में से 29 गुण.