Ashwini and Swati nakshatra matching

Koota by Koota

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

• Yoni, 0 of 4 — Swati: Buffalo · Ashwini: Horse. One of the seven hostile pairs, and the largest deduction a single koota can produce.
• Graha Maitri, 3 of 5 — Swati: Venus · Ashwini: Mars. 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 Ashwini: Sadhaka (6) · from Swati: Pratyari (5). One count of the two is inauspicious and the other is not, which halves the koota.
• Vashya, 0–1 of 2 — Swati: Manav · Ashwini: Chatushpada. Neither the same group nor the agreed zero, so the graded middle where lineages differ.
• Varna, 0 of 1 — Swati: Shudra · Ashwini: Kshatriya. The groom's rank has to reach the bride's and does not. One guna, and no tradition treats it as disqualifying.

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

All Sixteen Pada Combinations

Ashwini runs Aries 0°00′ – 13°20′ and Swati runs Libra 6°40′ – 20°00′ — 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: Ashwini as bride first, Swati as bride second. All sixteen read alike, so the padas can be left out of this one.

Strict reading of the two disputed kootas throughout. The generous reading of Yoni and Vashya adds 1 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.

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 Ashwini and Swati 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 Ashwini to Swati 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 Ashwini and 14 from Swati, 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 — Ashwini is Kshipra / Laghu (swift and light), Swati is Chara (movable) — 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: 26.5 of 36 puts Swati 5th among Ashwini's 27 possible partners and Ashwini 3rd among Swati's, both on the pada-1 figures those two tables print.

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