Ashtakoot Guna Milan · Pair

Ardra and Purva Ashadha nakshatra matching

27–29 of 36 with Ardra as bride, 26–28 with Purva Ashadha as bride — then computed again for all sixteen pada combinations.

Ardra: Adi (Vata) nadi · Dog yoni · Manushya gana | Purva Ashadha: Madhya (Pitta) nadi · Monkey yoni · Manushya gana

Ardra as bride

27–29

of 36

Purva Ashadha as bride

26–28

of 36

Across all padas

25–27

spread of 2

Ardra and Purva Ashadha come to 27–29 of 36 with Ardra on the bride's side and 26–28 with Purva Ashadha on it. What sits behind those two figures: Varna, Vashya, Gana, Bhakoot and Nadi score in full, while Graha Maitri (0.5 of 5), Tara (1.5 of 3) and Yoni (1–3 of 4) do not, and Graha Maitri on its own accounts for 4.5 of the guna that go missing.

A swing of 2 guna separates the best and worst cells in the grid below — 25 at the bottom, 27 at the top. The cause is a boundary inside the four padas: Purva Ashadha passes the mid-point of Sagittarius after pada 1, which moves it from the Manav vashya group into Chatushpada. Since Vashya is read from the half of the sign the Moon falls in, so two guna turn on that mid-point, which side of it the Moon fell on is not a detail.

Koota by Koota

Pada 1 on each side, and what every koota is reading for Ardra with Purva Ashadha. Varna and Gana are the two directional tests, which is why each name gets a column: Varna differs between them.

Ashtakoot koota scores for Ardra with Purva Ashadha 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	Purva Ashadha bride	What it reads
Varna / 1	1	0	Purva Ashadha: Kshatriya · Ardra: Shudra
Vashya / 2	2	2	Purva Ashadha: Manav · Ardra: Manav
Tara / 3	1.5	1.5	Counting from Ardra: Sadhaka (6) · from Purva Ashadha: Pratyari (5)
Yoni / 4	1–3	1–3	Purva Ashadha: Monkey · Ardra: Dog
Graha Maitri / 5	0.5	0.5	Purva Ashadha: Jupiter · Ardra: Mercury
Gana / 6	6	6	Purva Ashadha: Manushya · Ardra: Manushya
Bhakoot / 7	7	7	Sagittarius and Gemini — 7/7
Nadi / 8	8	8	Purva Ashadha: Madhya (Pitta) · Ardra: Adi (Vata)
Total / 36	27–29	26–28	Good

Graha Maitri, 0.5 of 5 — Purva Ashadha: Jupiter · Ardra: Mercury. Five guna ride on how the two sign lords regard each other, more than any other single test.
Tara, 1.5 of 3 — Counting from Ardra: Sadhaka (6) · from Purva Ashadha: Pratyari (5). One count of the two is inauspicious and the other is not, which halves the koota.
Yoni, 1–3 of 4 — Purva Ashadha: Monkey · Ardra: Dog. Not the same animal, not a hostile pair, so the graded middle.

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

All Sixteen Pada Combinations

Ardra runs Gemini 6°40′ – 20°00′ and Purva Ashadha runs Sagittarius 13°20′ – 26°40′ — 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, Purva Ashadha as bride second. The cells are not all the same, which is the point of printing them — 24 at the lowest and 27 at the highest.

Ashtakoot totals out of 36 for Ardra with Purva Ashadha across all sixteen pada combinations, each cell giving Ardra as bride then Purva Ashadha as bride, on the strict reading of Yoni and Vashya.
Ardra ↓ / Purva Ashadha →	Pada 1Sagittarius	Pada 2Sagittarius	Pada 3Sagittarius	Pada 4Sagittarius
Pada 1Gemini	27 / 26	25 / 24	25 / 24	25 / 24
Pada 2Gemini	27 / 26	25 / 24	25 / 24	25 / 24
Pada 3Gemini	27 / 26	25 / 24	25 / 24	25 / 24
Pada 4Gemini	27 / 26	25 / 24	25 / 24	25 / 24

Strict reading of the two disputed kootas throughout. The generous reading of Yoni and Vashya adds between 2 and 3 guna, depending on the cell. 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

Nadi and Bhakoot between them decide the shape of a result more than the total does — and both come with classical relief clauses that two named birth stars are enough to test.

Nadi Koota — 8 of 8

Ardra is Adi (Vata) and Purva Ashadha is Madhya (Pitta). Different nadis take the full eight guna, and since Nadi alone is more than a fifth of the total, this pair starts from a position 108 of the 351 pairs never reach.

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. The doshas Ashtakoot does not test for are a separate question — Mangal dosha among them.

Two Tests Outside the 36

The South Indian reckoning runs to ten kootas, and two of the extras are counts between Ardra and Purva Ashadha alone — so they can be given here and checked by hand.

Mahendra — absent. Mahendra wants every third star from the fourth — 4, 7, 10, 13, 16, 19, 22, 25 — and Ardra to Purva Ashadha is 15. The two counts always add to 29, so a Mahendra pair holds whichever way round the match is made.
Stri-Dirgha — satisfied both ways. This one is directional in earnest: 15 from Ardra and 14 from Purva Ashadha, against a threshold sources give as seven or as nine. It holds either way round here.

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

How the Pair Ranks on Each Side

A total carries meaning against the alternatives rather than on its own, and the alternatives differ for the two stars: 27 of 36 puts Purva Ashadha 4th among Ardra's 27 possible partners and Ardra 6th among Purva Ashadha's, both on the pada-1 figures those two tables print.

In Ardra’s table

4th of 27

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

In Purva Ashadha’s table

6th of 27

Ardra scores 27 there outright. Purva Ashadha’s 27 partners run from 9 to 31 with a median of 22.5, so this one sits above the middle of what Purva Ashadha can reach — all 27 rows.

What This Total Is Not

Across every pairing of two Moon positions that can exist, 63.6% clear 18 and the median total is 20.5, so clearing the conventional bar is the ordinary result rather than a distinction. The ceiling is 35, not 36 — no pairing of Ardra and Purva Ashadha or of anything else reaches a perfect score, and a site reporting one has added something to the arithmetic.

Written rather than computed, and worth the longer read: Venus, and what it decides about a marriage and the Kundli Milan guide written from these numbers. The full profiles of the two stars — deities, symbols, temperament, the syllables used for naming — are on the Ardra page and the Purva Ashadha page.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many guna do Ardra and Purva Ashadha score?

27–29 of 36 with Ardra as the bride and 26–28 with Purva Ashadha as the bride, taking pada 1 on both sides. The real padas move it: across all sixteen combinations the total runs from 25 to 27, and the grid on this page gives every cell. The generous reading of Yoni and Vashya adds between 2 and 3 guna, depending on the cell. Against every possible pairing of two Moon positions, 63.6% clear 18 and the median is 20.5.

Are Ardra and Purva Ashadha compatible?

On Ashtakoot the conservative reading puts Ardra with Purva Ashadha at good. The guna are lost on Graha Maitri (0.5 of 5), Tara (1.5 of 3) and Yoni (1–3 of 4). Read that as a filter result, not as a recommendation. No koota scores zero for this pair, which is worth more than the total itself.

Does the pada change the result for Ardra and Purva Ashadha?

Yes. Purva Ashadha passes the mid-point of Sagittarius after pada 1, which moves it from the Manav vashya group into Chatushpada, and Vashya is read from which half of the sign the Moon occupies, so two guna move with that mid-point. The total ranges from 25 to 27 across the sixteen combinations — a swing of 2 guna, against a median of 2 and a maximum of 14 over all 351 pairs. Only the birth times settle which cell applies.

Do Ardra and Purva Ashadha have Bhakoot dosha?

No. The two Moon signs never fall at one of the three forbidden distances — 6/8 Shadashtaka, 5/9 Navapanchaka or 2/12 Dwirdwadasha — in any of the sixteen pada combinations, so Bhakoot scores its full seven throughout. Bhakoot is all or nothing: there is no partial score.

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

On the arithmetic, Ardra on the bride's side scores higher — 27–29 against 26–28. Varna and Gana are the only kootas that can do that, and here Varna goes from 1 with Ardra as bride to 0 with Purva Ashadha 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 grid above narrows Ardra and Purva Ashadha to sixteen answers between 25 and 27. Two birth times pick one of them.

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