Ashtakoot Guna Milan · Pair
Chitra and Purva Ashadha nakshatra matching
16–18 of 36 with Chitra as bride, 12–14 with Purva Ashadha as bride — then computed again for all sixteen pada combinations.
Chitra: Madhya (Pitta) nadi · Tiger yoni · Rakshasa gana | Purva Ashadha: Madhya (Pitta) nadi · Monkey yoni · Manushya gana
Chitra as bride
16–18
of 36
Purva Ashadha as bride
12–14
of 36
Across all padas
14–16
spread of 2
Chitra and Purva Ashadha come to 16–18 of 36 with Chitra on the bride's side and 12–14 with Purva Ashadha on it. What sits behind those two figures: Varna, Vashya and Bhakoot score in full, while Nadi (0 of 8), Graha Maitri (0.5 of 5), Gana (3 of 6), Tara (1.5 of 3) and Yoni (1–3 of 4) do not, and Nadi on its own accounts for 8 of the guna that go missing.
A swing of 2 guna separates the best and worst cells in the grid below — 14 at the bottom, 16 at the top. The cause is a boundary inside the four padas: Chitra runs from Virgo into Libra after pada 2 and Purva Ashadha passes the mid-point of Sagittarius after pada 1, which moves it from the Manav vashya group into Chatushpada. 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
Pada 1 on each side, and what every koota is reading for Chitra with Purva Ashadha. Varna and Gana are the two directional tests, which is why each name gets a column: Varna and Gana differ between them.
| Koota | Chitra bride | Purva Ashadha bride | What it reads |
|---|---|---|---|
| Varna / 1 | 1 | 0 | Purva Ashadha: Kshatriya · Chitra: Vaishya |
| Vashya / 2 | 2 | 2 | Purva Ashadha: Manav · Chitra: Manav |
| Tara / 3 | 1.5 | 1.5 | Counting from Chitra: Vadha (7) · from Purva Ashadha: Kshema (4) |
| Yoni / 4 | 1–3 | 1–3 | Purva Ashadha: Monkey · Chitra: Tiger |
| Graha Maitri / 5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | Purva Ashadha: Jupiter · Chitra: Mercury |
| Gana / 6 | 3 | 0 | Purva Ashadha: Manushya · Chitra: Rakshasa |
| Bhakoot / 7 | 7 | 7 | Sagittarius and Virgo — 4/10 |
| Nadi / 8 | 0 | 0 | Purva Ashadha: Madhya (Pitta) · Chitra: Madhya (Pitta) |
| Total / 36 | 16–18 | 12–14 | Below the conventional threshold |
- Nadi, 0 of 8 — Purva Ashadha: Madhya (Pitta) · Chitra: Madhya (Pitta). The heaviest koota in the system, all or nothing.
- Graha Maitri, 0.5 of 5 — Purva Ashadha: Jupiter · Chitra: Mercury. Five guna ride on how the two sign lords regard each other, more than any other single test.
- Gana, 3 of 6 — Purva Ashadha: Manushya · Chitra: Rakshasa. Directional: swap the partners and the same two ganas score differently.
- Tara, 1.5 of 3 — Counting from Chitra: Vadha (7) · from Purva Ashadha: Kshema (4). One count of the two is inauspicious and the other is not, which halves the koota.
- Yoni, 1–3 of 4 — Purva Ashadha: Monkey · Chitra: Tiger. 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 Chitra’s table and Purva Ashadha’s.
All Sixteen Pada Combinations
Chitra runs Virgo 23°20′ – Libra 6°40′ 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 66°40′ and 93°20′ apart. Every cell below holds two totals: Chitra as bride first, Purva Ashadha as bride second. The cells are not all the same, which is the point of printing them — 10 at the lowest and 16 at the highest.
| Chitra ↓ / Purva Ashadha → | Pada 1Sagittarius | Pada 2Sagittarius | Pada 3Sagittarius | Pada 4Sagittarius |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pada 1Virgo | 16 / 12 | 14 / 10 | 14 / 10 | 14 / 10 |
| Pada 2Virgo | 16 / 12 | 14 / 10 | 14 / 10 | 14 / 10 |
| Pada 3Libra | 16 / 12 | 14 / 10 | 14 / 10 | 14 / 10 |
| Pada 4Libra | 16 / 12 | 14 / 10 | 14 / 10 | 14 / 10 |
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. None of the sixteen clears the conventional threshold of 18 on this reading. 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 — 0 of 8
Chitra and Purva Ashadha are both Madhya (Pitta), 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 Chitra with Purva Ashadha however well everything else goes.
Bhakoot Koota — 7 of 7 at pada 1
Sagittarius and Virgo — 4/10 — 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
The South Indian reckoning runs to ten kootas, and two of the extras are counts between Chitra and Purva Ashadha alone — so they can be given here and checked by hand.
- Mahendra — present. Mahendra wants every third star from the fourth — 4, 7, 10, 13, 16, 19, 22, 25 — and Chitra to Purva Ashadha is 7. The two counts always add to 29, so a Mahendra pair holds whichever way round the match is made.
- Stri-Dirgha — satisfied one way. This one is directional in earnest: 7 from Chitra and 22 from Purva Ashadha, against a threshold sources give as seven or as nine. It holds with Purva Ashadha as the bride and not with Chitra.
Neither test touches the 36. Muhurta nature is a different question again — Chitra is Mridu (tender), 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: 16 of 36 puts Purva Ashadha 19th among Chitra's 27 possible partners and Chitra 21st among Purva Ashadha's, both on the pada-1 figures those two tables print.
In Chitra’s table
19th of 27
Purva Ashadha scores 16 there outright. Chitra’s 27 partners run from 7 to 29 with a median of 20, so this one sits below the middle of what Chitra can reach — all 27 rows.
In Purva Ashadha’s table
21st of 27
Chitra scores 16 there, level with 2 other partners. Purva Ashadha’s 27 partners run from 9 to 31 with a median of 22.5, so this one sits below 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 Chitra 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: the 36 guna taken one koota at a time and what the Navamsa adds that Guna Milan cannot. The full profiles of the two stars — deities, symbols, temperament, the syllables used for naming — are on the Chitra page and the Purva Ashadha page.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Run It On the Real Padas
The grid above narrows Chitra and Purva Ashadha to sixteen answers between 14 and 16. Two birth times pick one of them.
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