Ashtakoot Guna Milan · Pair
Krittika and Chitra nakshatra matching
17–20 of 36 with Krittika as bride, 18–21 with Chitra as bride — then computed again for all sixteen pada combinations.
Krittika: Antya (Kapha) nadi · Sheep yoni · Rakshasa gana | Chitra: Madhya (Pitta) nadi · Tiger yoni · Rakshasa gana
Krittika as bride
17–20
of 36
Chitra as bride
18–21
of 36
Across all padas
18–27.5
spread of 9.5
Krittika and Chitra come to 17–20 of 36 with Krittika on the bride's side and 18–21 with Chitra on it. What sits behind those two figures: Gana and Nadi score in full, while Bhakoot (0 of 7), Graha Maitri (0.5 of 5), Tara (1.5 of 3), Yoni (1–3 of 4), Vashya (0–1 of 2) and Varna (0 of 1) do not, and Bhakoot on its own accounts for 7 of the guna that go missing.
A swing of 9.5 guna separates the best and worst cells in the grid below — 18 at the bottom, 27.5 at the top. The cause is a boundary inside the four padas: Krittika runs from Aries into Taurus after pada 1 and 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
Pada 1 on each side, and what every koota is reading for Krittika with Chitra. Varna and Gana are the two directional tests, which is why each name gets a column: Varna differs between them.
| Koota | Krittika bride | Chitra bride | What it reads |
|---|---|---|---|
| Varna / 1 | 0 | 1 | Chitra: Vaishya · Krittika: Kshatriya |
| Vashya / 2 | 0–1 | 0–1 | Chitra: Manav · Krittika: Chatushpada |
| Tara / 3 | 1.5 | 1.5 | Counting from Krittika: Vipat (3) · from Chitra: Mitra (8) |
| Yoni / 4 | 1–3 | 1–3 | Chitra: Tiger · Krittika: Sheep |
| Graha Maitri / 5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | Chitra: Mercury · Krittika: Mars |
| Gana / 6 | 6 | 6 | Chitra: Rakshasa · Krittika: Rakshasa |
| Bhakoot / 7 | 0 | 0 | Virgo and Aries — 6/8 |
| Nadi / 8 | 8 | 8 | Chitra: Madhya (Pitta) · Krittika: Antya (Kapha) |
| Total / 36 | 17–20 | 18–21 | Acceptable |
- Bhakoot, 0 of 7 — Virgo and Aries — 6/8. One of the three forbidden distances, and Bhakoot is all or nothing.
- Graha Maitri, 0.5 of 5 — Chitra: Mercury · Krittika: 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 Krittika: Vipat (3) · from Chitra: Mitra (8). One count of the two is inauspicious and the other is not, which halves the koota.
- Yoni, 1–3 of 4 — Chitra: Tiger · Krittika: Sheep. Not the same animal, not a hostile pair, so the graded middle.
- Vashya, 0–1 of 2 — Chitra: Manav · Krittika: Chatushpada. Neither the same group nor the agreed zero, so the graded middle where lineages differ.
- Varna, 0 of 1 — Chitra: Vaishya · Krittika: 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 Krittika’s table and Chitra’s.
All Sixteen Pada Combinations
Krittika runs Aries 26°40′ – Taurus 10°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 133°20′ and 160°00′ apart. Every cell below holds two totals: Krittika as bride first, Chitra as bride second. The cells are not all the same, which is the point of printing them — 17 at the lowest and 27.5 at the highest.
| Krittika ↓ / Chitra → | Pada 1Virgo | Pada 2Virgo | Pada 3Libra | Pada 4Libra |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pada 1Aries | 17 / 18 | 17 / 18 | 26.5 / 27.5 | 26.5 / 27.5 |
| Pada 2Taurus | 22.5 / 22.5 | 22.5 / 22.5 | 21.5 / 22.5 | 21.5 / 22.5 |
| Pada 3Taurus | 22.5 / 22.5 | 22.5 / 22.5 | 21.5 / 22.5 | 21.5 / 22.5 |
| Pada 4Taurus | 22.5 / 22.5 | 22.5 / 22.5 | 21.5 / 22.5 | 21.5 / 22.5 |
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
Krittika 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 — 0 of 7 at pada 1
In 14 of the sixteen pada combinations, the two Moon signs stand at one of the three forbidden distances and Bhakoot gives nothing. 12 of those 14 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 Krittika and Chitra 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 Krittika to Chitra is 12. 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: 12 from Krittika and 17 from Chitra, 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 — Krittika is Mishra (mixed), Chitra is Mridu (tender) — 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: 18 of 36 puts Chitra 18th among Krittika's 27 possible partners and Krittika 16th among Chitra's, both on the pada-1 figures those two tables print.
In Krittika’s table
18th of 27
Chitra scores 18 there outright. Krittika’s 27 partners run from 9.5 to 30 with a median of 20, so this one sits below the middle of what Krittika can reach — all 27 rows.
In Chitra’s table
16th of 27
Krittika scores 18 there, level with 1 other partner. 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.
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 Krittika and Chitra 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 Krittika page and the Chitra page.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Run It On the Real Padas
The grid above narrows Krittika and Chitra to sixteen answers between 18 and 27.5. Two birth times pick one of them.
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