Ashtakoot Guna Milan · Pair

Ardra and Mula nakshatra matching

16 of 36 with Ardra as bride, 18 with Mula as bride — then computed again for all sixteen pada combinations.

Ardra: Adi (Vata) nadi · Dog yoni · Manushya gana | Mula: Adi (Vata) nadi · Dog yoni · Rakshasa gana

Ardra as bride

of 36

Mula as bride

of 36

Across all padas

one answer

Four of the eight kootas — Tara, Yoni, Gana and Nadi — are settled by the two birth stars alone, before anyone asks about a pada; the other four are read from the Moon rashi, which a pada can move. For Ardra with Mula that leaves 4 of the eight at full marks — Varna, Vashya, Yoni and Bhakoot — and 4 carrying a deduction: Nadi (0 of 8), Gana (0 of 6), Graha Maitri (0.5 of 5) and Tara (1.5 of 3). The heaviest of them is Nadi, where Mula: Adi (Vata) · Ardra: Adi (Vata) gives 0 of 8.

All sixteen combinations give the same answer. Neither star crosses a boundary of any kind between its padas, so the totals below are the whole result and the birth times only need to be accurate enough to fix the nakshatra. This pair is one of the 120 of 351 where that is true.

Koota by Koota

All eight kootas for Ardra and Mula, taken at pada 1 each. Two columns because Varna and Gana can score differently by direction where the other six cannot: Varna and Gana differ between them.

Ashtakoot koota scores for Ardra with Mula at pada 1 on both sides, shown separately for each partner on the bride’s side, with the values each koota reads.
Koota	Ardra bride	Mula bride	What it reads
Varna / 1	1	0	Mula: Kshatriya · Ardra: Shudra
Vashya / 2	2	2	Mula: Manav · Ardra: Manav
Tara / 3	1.5	1.5	Counting from Ardra: Pratyari (5) · from Mula: Sadhaka (6)
Yoni / 4	4	4	Mula: Dog · Ardra: Dog
Graha Maitri / 5	0.5	0.5	Mula: Jupiter · Ardra: Mercury
Gana / 6	0	3	Mula: Rakshasa · Ardra: Manushya
Bhakoot / 7	7	7	Sagittarius and Gemini — 7/7
Nadi / 8	0	0	Mula: Adi (Vata) · Ardra: Adi (Vata)
Total / 36	16	18	Acceptable

Nadi, 0 of 8 — Mula: Adi (Vata) · Ardra: Adi (Vata). Eight guna on one comparison, and it is the whole of Nadi.
Gana, 0 of 6 — Mula: Rakshasa · Ardra: Manushya. The gentle temperament is held to bear the cost of the forceful one unevenly.
Graha Maitri, 0.5 of 5 — Mula: Jupiter · Ardra: Mercury. The mental-compatibility koota, and the sign lords fall short of friendship.
Tara, 1.5 of 3 — Counting from Ardra: Pratyari (5) · from Mula: Sadhaka (6). Half the koota, because the count is unfavourable in one direction only.

Half-guna figures are exact rather than rounded. Each koota’s rule is set out in full on Ardra’s table and Mula’s.

All Sixteen Pada Combinations

Ardra runs Gemini 6°40′ – 20°00′ and Mula runs Sagittarius 0°00′ – 13°20′ — two arcs 13°20′ wide, each divided into four padas of 3°20′, which puts the two Moons anywhere between 160°00′ and 180°00′ apart. Every cell below holds two totals: Ardra as bride first, Mula as bride second. All sixteen read alike, so the padas can be left out of this one.

Ashtakoot totals out of 36 for Ardra with Mula across all sixteen pada combinations, each cell giving Ardra as bride then Mula as bride, on the strict reading of Yoni and Vashya.
Ardra ↓ / Mula →	Pada 1Sagittarius	Pada 2Sagittarius	Pada 3Sagittarius	Pada 4Sagittarius
Pada 1Gemini	16 / 18	16 / 18	16 / 18	16 / 18
Pada 2Gemini	16 / 18	16 / 18	16 / 18	16 / 18
Pada 3Gemini	16 / 18	16 / 18	16 / 18	16 / 18
Pada 4Gemini	16 / 18	16 / 18	16 / 18	16 / 18

Strict reading of the two disputed kootas throughout. Yoni and Vashya are undisputed for these two stars, so every figure is exact rather than a low end. All sixteen combinations clear the conventional threshold of 18. Dimmed cells fall below it; the nakshatra finder returns the pada from a birth date, time and place.

The Two Doshas, and Whether They Are Cancelled

Fifteen of the 36 guna sit in these two, and both are all-or-nothing. Their cancellations are stated specifically enough to be checked for Ardra and Mula rather than guessed at.

Nadi Koota — 0 of 8

Ardra and Mula are both Adi (Vata), so the plain rule gives nothing. None of the three recognised cancellations reaches this pair — the same star in different padas, both Moons in one rashi, or two rashis sharing a lord — so the eight guna are lost and 28 is the ceiling for Ardra with Mula however well everything else goes.

Bhakoot Koota — 7 of 7 at pada 1

Sagittarius and Gemini — 7/7 — outside the three forbidden distances of 6/8, 5/9 and 2/12, and it stays outside them in all sixteen pada combinations. Bhakoot is full at seven throughout.

A cancellation is relief, not a score adjustment — the koota still reads zero above. Remedial practice for Nadi dosha is set out on the Nadi dosha page.

Two Tests Outside the 36

Two tests the eight kootas leave out, both settled by the distance between the two stars: Ardra to Mula is 14 and back is 15, counting inclusively.

Mahendra — absent. 14 stars between them, against a favourable set of 4, 7, 10, 13, 16, 19, 22 and 25. 108 of the 351 pairs land on one of those.
Stri-Dirgha — satisfied both ways. The count from the bride's star should pass nine — 14 with Ardra as bride, 15 with Mula — and 135 pairs clear it both ways against 216 that clear it one way. It holds either way round here.

Neither test touches the 36. Muhurta nature is a different question again — Ardra is Tikshna (sharp), Mula is Tikshna (sharp) — and it governs what each star suits doing, not who it marries.

How the Pair Ranks on Each Side

The same 18 of 36 reads differently from each side, because each star is being compared with a different 27: 20th place in Ardra's table, 16th in Mula's. Both positions can be checked by counting rows there — the figures are the ones those tables print.

In Ardra’s table

20th of 27

Mula scores 18 there outright. Ardra’s 27 partners run from 5 to 29 with a median of 22.5, so this one sits below the middle of what Ardra can reach — all 27 rows.

In Mula’s table

16th of 27

Ardra scores 18 there outright. Mula’s 27 partners run from 11 to 30 with a median of 21, so this one sits below the middle of what Mula can reach — all 27 rows.

What This Total Is Not

One number cannot carry a marriage. Ashtakoot reads a single point from each chart — the Moon — so two people born hours apart with the Moon in Ardra score identically here whatever else their charts do. The seventh house and its lord, Venus, Mars and Mangal dosha, and the dasha each partner is running are all outside it, and any of them can matter more than the difference between acceptable and the band above.

Written rather than computed, and worth the longer read: what the Navamsa adds that Guna Milan cannot and what a birth date alone can and cannot settle. The full profiles of the two stars — deities, symbols, temperament, the syllables used for naming — are on the Ardra page and the Mula page.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many guna do Ardra and Mula score?

16 of 36 with Ardra as the bride and 18 with Mula as the bride, taking pada 1 on both sides. The padas do not change it — all sixteen combinations give the same answer, which makes this one of the 146 pairs of 351 where the two birth stars settle the score outright. Yoni and Vashya are undisputed for these two stars, so every figure is exact rather than a low end. Against every possible pairing of two Moon positions, 63.6% clear 18 and the median is 20.5.

Are Ardra and Mula compatible?

On Ashtakoot the conservative reading puts Ardra with Mula at acceptable. The guna are lost on Nadi (0 of 8), Gana (0 of 6), Graha Maitri (0.5 of 5) and Tara (1.5 of 3). It is a filter, and filters do not recommend. A koota scoring zero — here Gana and Nadi — is the part worth taking to an astrologer rather than to a calculator.

Does the pada change the result for Ardra and Mula?

No. Every one of the sixteen pada combinations returns the same total for Ardra and Mula. Neither star crosses a boundary between its padas, so all four sit in one rashi and one half of it, and no koota can move. 120 of the 351 pairs behave this way.

Do Ardra and Mula have Nadi dosha?

Yes on the plain rule: both birth stars fall in Adi (Vata), and a shared nadi scores 0 of 8 — the largest single deduction in Ashtakoot. The three recognised cancellations — the same star in different padas, both Moons in one rashi, or two rashis sharing a lord — do not apply to Ardra with Mula, so the eight guna are genuinely lost. That leaves a ceiling of 28 for this pair however well the other seven go. Across every possible pairing, 33.3% carry Nadi dosha and 23.2% of those are cancelled.

Is it better for Ardra to be the bride or the groom?

On the arithmetic, Mula on the bride's side scores higher — 18 against 16. Varna and Gana are the only kootas that can do that, and here Varna goes from 1 with Ardra as bride to 0 with Mula as bride and Gana goes from 0 with Ardra as bride to 3 with Mula as bride. 314 of the 351 pairs move like this, so a calculator that takes two stars without asking who is the bride has picked a direction for you.

Run It On the Real Padas

The score is settled for Ardra and Mula, but the doshas, the seventh house and the running dasha are not — and those are what a chart is for.

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