Ashtakoot Guna Milan · Pair
Ashlesha and Chitra nakshatra matching
24.5–27.5 of 36 with Ashlesha as bride, 25.5–28.5 with Chitra as bride — then computed again for all sixteen pada combinations.
Ashlesha: Antya (Kapha) nadi · Cat yoni · Rakshasa gana | Chitra: Madhya (Pitta) nadi · Tiger yoni · Rakshasa gana
Ashlesha as bride
24.5–27.5
of 36
Chitra as bride
25.5–28.5
of 36
Across all padas
25–25.5
spread of 0.5
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 Ashlesha with Chitra that leaves 3 of the eight at full marks — Gana, Bhakoot and Nadi — and 5 carrying a deduction: Graha Maitri (1 of 5), Tara (1.5 of 3), Yoni (1–3 of 4), Vashya (0–1 of 2) and Varna (0 of 1). The heaviest of them is Graha Maitri, where Chitra: Mercury · Ashlesha: Moon gives 1 of 5.
A swing of 0.5 guna separates the best and worst cells in the grid below — 25 at the bottom, 25.5 at the top. The cause is a boundary inside the four padas: Chitra runs from Virgo into Libra after pada 2. Since Varna, Vashya, Graha Maitri and Bhakoot are all read from the Moon rashi rather than from the star, which puts 15 of the 36 guna on that boundary, which side of it the Moon fell on is not a detail.
Koota by Koota
All eight kootas for Ashlesha and Chitra, taken at pada 1 each. Two columns because Varna and Gana can score differently by direction where the other six cannot: Varna differs between them.
| Koota | Ashlesha bride | Chitra bride | What it reads |
|---|---|---|---|
| Varna / 1 | 0 | 1 | Chitra: Vaishya · Ashlesha: Brahmin |
| Vashya / 2 | 0–1 | 0–1 | Chitra: Manav · Ashlesha: Jalachar |
| Tara / 3 | 1.5 | 1.5 | Counting from Ashlesha: Sadhaka (6) · from Chitra: Pratyari (5) |
| Yoni / 4 | 1–3 | 1–3 | Chitra: Tiger · Ashlesha: Cat |
| Graha Maitri / 5 | 1 | 1 | Chitra: Mercury · Ashlesha: Moon |
| Gana / 6 | 6 | 6 | Chitra: Rakshasa · Ashlesha: Rakshasa |
| Bhakoot / 7 | 7 | 7 | Virgo and Cancer — 3/11 |
| Nadi / 8 | 8 | 8 | Chitra: Madhya (Pitta) · Ashlesha: Antya (Kapha) |
| Total / 36 | 24.5–27.5 | 25.5–28.5 | Good |
- Graha Maitri, 1 of 5 — Chitra: Mercury · Ashlesha: Moon. The mental-compatibility koota, and the sign lords fall short of friendship.
- Tara, 1.5 of 3 — Counting from Ashlesha: Sadhaka (6) · from Chitra: Pratyari (5). Half the koota, because the count is unfavourable in one direction only.
- Yoni, 1–3 of 4 — Chitra: Tiger · Ashlesha: Cat. The middle of this koota, where tables give one, two or three guna.
- Vashya, 0–1 of 2 — Chitra: Manav · Ashlesha: Jalachar. The middle of this koota: tables put a pair like this anywhere between half a guna and one.
- Varna, 0 of 1 — Chitra: Vaishya · Ashlesha: Brahmin. A deliberately one-way test on rank, failed in this direction. It is one point of thirty-six.
Half-guna figures are exact rather than rounded. Each koota’s rule is set out in full on Ashlesha’s table and Chitra’s.
All Sixteen Pada Combinations
Ashlesha runs Cancer 16°40′ – 30°00′ and Chitra runs Virgo 23°20′ – Libra 6°40′ — two arcs 13°20′ wide, each divided into four padas of 3°20′, which puts the two Moons anywhere between 53°20′ and 80°00′ apart. Every cell below holds two totals: Ashlesha as bride first, Chitra as bride second. The cells are not all the same, which is the point of printing them — 24 at the lowest and 25.5 at the highest.
| Ashlesha ↓ / Chitra → | Pada 1Virgo | Pada 2Virgo | Pada 3Libra | Pada 4Libra |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pada 1Cancer | 24.5 / 25.5 | 24.5 / 25.5 | 24 / 25 | 24 / 25 |
| Pada 2Cancer | 24.5 / 25.5 | 24.5 / 25.5 | 24 / 25 | 24 / 25 |
| Pada 3Cancer | 24.5 / 25.5 | 24.5 / 25.5 | 24 / 25 | 24 / 25 |
| Pada 4Cancer | 24.5 / 25.5 | 24.5 / 25.5 | 24 / 25 | 24 / 25 |
Strict reading of the two disputed kootas throughout. The generous reading of Yoni and Vashya adds 3 guna to every 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
Ashlesha is Antya (Kapha) and Chitra 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
Virgo and Cancer — 3/11 — 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
Two tests the eight kootas leave out, both settled by the distance between the two stars: Ashlesha to Chitra is 6 and back is 23, counting inclusively.
- Mahendra — absent. 6 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 one way. The count from the bride's star should pass nine — 6 with Ashlesha as bride, 23 with Chitra — and 135 pairs clear it both ways against 216 that clear it one way. It holds with Chitra as the bride and not with Ashlesha.
Neither test touches the 36. Muhurta nature is a different question again — Ashlesha is Tikshna (sharp), Chitra is Mridu (tender) — and it governs what each star suits doing, not who it marries.
How the Pair Ranks on Each Side
The same 25.5 of 36 reads differently from each side, because each star is being compared with a different 27: 4th place in Ashlesha's table, 6th in Chitra's. Both positions can be checked by counting rows there — the figures are the ones those tables print.
In Ashlesha’s table
4th of 27
Chitra scores 25.5 there outright. Ashlesha’s 27 partners run from 9.5 to 28 with a median of 18, so this one sits above the middle of what Ashlesha can reach — all 27 rows.
In Chitra’s table
6th of 27
Ashlesha scores 25.5 there, level with 1 other partner. Chitra’s 27 partners run from 7 to 29 with a median of 20, so this one sits above the middle of what Chitra 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 Ashlesha 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 good and the band above.
Written rather than computed, and worth the longer read: the Kundli Milan guide written from these numbers and the guide to all 27 birth stars. The full profiles of the two stars — deities, symbols, temperament, the syllables used for naming — are on the Ashlesha page and the Chitra page.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Run It On the Real Padas
The grid above narrows Ashlesha and Chitra to sixteen answers between 25 and 25.5. Two birth times pick one of them.
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