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Pratyari Tara (5) in Guna Milan
Tara counts the nakshatras from one birth star to the other, inclusively, and reduces the count to one of nine; Pratyari is the 5th, so a star 5th, 14th or 23rd from another sits at Pratyari from it. The koota counts both ways, bride to groom and groom to bride, and the two counts are not independent: when the groom’s star is at Pratyari from the bride’s, the bride’s is always at Sadhaka (6) from the groom’s, because both counts are the same distance read from opposite ends.
Pratyari is one of the three inauspicious counts, the 3rd, 5th and 7th, and Sadhaka, its reverse, is not, so every pairing with Pratyari counted from the bride scores exactly 1.5 of the Tara koota’s 3 — all 1,296 of them. One inauspicious count is the most a Pratyari pairing carries, since its partner count is Sadhaka, and because no two inauspicious counts ever pair, Tara never scores nothing.
Which Stars Sit at Pratyari From Each Birth Star
| From | At Pratyari |
|---|---|
| Ashwini | Mrigashira, Chitra, Dhanishta |
| Bharani | Ardra, Swati, Shatabhisha |
| Krittika | Punarvasu, Vishakha, Purva Bhadrapada |
| Rohini | Pushya, Anuradha, Uttara Bhadrapada |
| Mrigashira | Ashlesha, Jyeshtha, Revati |
| Ardra | Ashwini, Magha, Mula |
| Punarvasu | Bharani, Purva Phalguni, Purva Ashadha |
| Pushya | Krittika, Uttara Phalguni, Uttara Ashadha |
| Ashlesha | Rohini, Hasta, Shravana |
| Magha | Mrigashira, Chitra, Dhanishta |
| Purva Phalguni | Ardra, Swati, Shatabhisha |
| Uttara Phalguni | Punarvasu, Vishakha, Purva Bhadrapada |
| Hasta | Pushya, Anuradha, Uttara Bhadrapada |
| Chitra | Ashlesha, Jyeshtha, Revati |
| Swati | Ashwini, Magha, Mula |
| Vishakha | Bharani, Purva Phalguni, Purva Ashadha |
| Anuradha | Krittika, Uttara Phalguni, Uttara Ashadha |
| Jyeshtha | Rohini, Hasta, Shravana |
| Mula | Mrigashira, Chitra, Dhanishta |
| Purva Ashadha | Ardra, Swati, Shatabhisha |
| Uttara Ashadha | Punarvasu, Vishakha, Purva Bhadrapada |
| Shravana | Pushya, Anuradha, Uttara Bhadrapada |
| Dhanishta | Ashlesha, Jyeshtha, Revati |
| Shatabhisha | Ashwini, Magha, Mula |
| Purva Bhadrapada | Bharani, Purva Phalguni, Purva Ashadha |
| Uttara Bhadrapada | Krittika, Uttara Phalguni, Uttara Ashadha |
| Revati | Rohini, Hasta, Shravana |
Whether the groom's star sits at Pratyari from the bride's is fixed by the two birth stars; the full match needs 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.
The other taras: Janma, Sampat, Vipat, Kshema, Sadhaka, Vadha, Mitra and Ati-Mitra. Pratyari in the context of the whole koota is on the Tara page; the method in the 36 gunas explained. In Hindi: प्रत्यरि तारा.