Ashtakoot Guna Milan · Pair
Chitra and Vishakha nakshatra matching
26.5 of 36 with Chitra as bride, 27.5 with Vishakha as bride — then computed again for all sixteen pada combinations.
Chitra: Madhya (Pitta) nadi · Tiger yoni · Rakshasa gana | Vishakha: Antya (Kapha) nadi · Tiger yoni · Rakshasa gana
Chitra as bride
26.5
of 36
Vishakha as bride
27.5
of 36
Across all padas
23.5–34.5
spread of 11
Chitra and Vishakha come to 26.5 of 36 with Chitra on the bride's side and 27.5 with Vishakha on it. What sits behind those two figures: Vashya, Yoni, Graha Maitri, Gana and Nadi score in full, while Bhakoot (0 of 7), Tara (1.5 of 3) and Varna (0 of 1) do not, and Bhakoot on its own accounts for 7 of the guna that go missing.
The pada decides part of this one. Chitra runs from Virgo into Libra after pada 2 and Vishakha runs from Libra into Scorpio after pada 3, and 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. Across the sixteen combinations the total moves between 23.5 and 34.5, a swing of 11 guna against a median of 2 for all 351 pairs.
Koota by Koota
Pada 1 on each side, and what every koota is reading for Chitra with Vishakha. Varna and Gana are the two directional tests, which is why each name gets a column: Varna differs between them.
| Koota | Chitra bride | Vishakha bride | What it reads |
|---|---|---|---|
| Varna / 1 | 0 | 1 | Vishakha: Shudra · Chitra: Vaishya |
| Vashya / 2 | 2 | 2 | Vishakha: Manav · Chitra: Manav |
| Tara / 3 | 1.5 | 1.5 | Counting from Chitra: Vipat (3) · from Vishakha: Mitra (8) |
| Yoni / 4 | 4 | 4 | Vishakha: Tiger · Chitra: Tiger |
| Graha Maitri / 5 | 5 | 5 | Vishakha: Venus · Chitra: Mercury |
| Gana / 6 | 6 | 6 | Vishakha: Rakshasa · Chitra: Rakshasa |
| Bhakoot / 7 | 0 | 0 | Libra and Virgo — 2/12 |
| Nadi / 8 | 8 | 8 | Vishakha: Antya (Kapha) · Chitra: Madhya (Pitta) |
| Total / 36 | 26.5 | 27.5 | Good |
- Bhakoot, 0 of 7 — Libra and Virgo — 2/12. One of the three forbidden distances, and Bhakoot is all or nothing.
- Tara, 1.5 of 3 — Counting from Chitra: Vipat (3) · from Vishakha: Mitra (8). One count of the two is inauspicious and the other is not, which halves the koota.
- Varna, 0 of 1 — Vishakha: Shudra · Chitra: Vaishya. 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 Chitra’s table and Vishakha’s.
All Sixteen Pada Combinations
Chitra runs Virgo 23°20′ – Libra 6°40′ and Vishakha runs Libra 20°00′ – Scorpio 3°20′ — two arcs 13°20′ wide, each divided into four padas of 3°20′, which puts the two Moons anywhere between 13°20′ and 40°00′ apart. Every cell below holds two totals: Chitra as bride first, Vishakha as bride second. The cells are not all the same, which is the point of printing them — 22.5 at the lowest and 34.5 at the highest.
| Chitra ↓ / Vishakha → | Pada 1Libra | Pada 2Libra | Pada 3Libra | Pada 4Scorpio |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pada 1Virgo | 26.5 / 27.5 | 26.5 / 27.5 | 26.5 / 27.5 | 28 / 27 |
| Pada 2Virgo | 26.5 / 27.5 | 26.5 / 27.5 | 26.5 / 27.5 | 28 / 27 |
| Pada 3Libra | 34.5 / 34.5 | 34.5 / 34.5 | 34.5 / 34.5 | 23.5 / 22.5 |
| Pada 4Libra | 34.5 / 34.5 | 34.5 / 34.5 | 34.5 / 34.5 | 23.5 / 22.5 |
Strict reading of the two disputed kootas throughout. The generous reading of Yoni and Vashya adds between 0 and 1 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
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 Chitra and Vishakha rather than guessed at.
Nadi Koota — 8 of 8
Chitra is Madhya (Pitta) and Vishakha is Antya (Kapha). 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 — 0 of 7 at pada 1
In 8 of the sixteen pada combinations, the two Moon signs stand at one of the three forbidden distances and Bhakoot gives nothing. 6 of those 8 cells carry the cancellation and the rest do not, so the pada decides not just the score but whether the relief clause is available.
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 Chitra and Vishakha 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 Chitra to Vishakha is 3. 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: 3 from Chitra and 26 from Vishakha, against a threshold sources give as seven or as nine. It holds with Vishakha as the bride and not with Chitra.
Neither test touches the 36. Muhurta nature is a different question again — Chitra is Mridu (tender), Vishakha is Mishra (mixed) — 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: 27.5 of 36 puts Vishakha 4th among Chitra's 27 possible partners and Chitra 3rd among Vishakha's, both on the pada-1 figures those two tables print.
In Chitra’s table
4th of 27
Vishakha scores 27.5 there outright. 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.
In Vishakha’s table
3rd of 27
Chitra scores 27.5 there outright. Vishakha’s 27 partners run from 5 to 29.5 with a median of 20.5, so this one sits above the middle of what Vishakha 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 Vishakha 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 Chitra page and the Vishakha page.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Run It On the Real Padas
The grid above narrows Chitra and Vishakha to sixteen answers between 23.5 and 34.5. Two birth times pick one of them.
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