Ashtakoot Guna Milan · Pair
Krittika and Jyeshtha nakshatra matching
22.5–25.5 of 36 with Krittika as bride, 21.5–24.5 with Jyeshtha as bride — then computed again for all sixteen pada combinations.
Krittika: Antya (Kapha) nadi · Sheep yoni · Rakshasa gana | Jyeshtha: Adi (Vata) nadi · Deer yoni · Rakshasa gana
Krittika as bride
22.5–25.5
of 36
Jyeshtha as bride
21.5–24.5
of 36
Across all padas
22.5–27.5
spread of 5
Krittika and Jyeshtha come to 22.5–25.5 of 36 with Krittika on the bride's side and 21.5–24.5 with Jyeshtha on it. What sits behind those two figures: Varna, Graha Maitri, Gana and Nadi score in full, while Bhakoot (0 of 7), Tara (1.5 of 3), Yoni (1–3 of 4) and Vashya (0–1 of 2) do not, and Bhakoot on its own accounts for 7 of the guna that go missing.
Two birth stars are not enough for this pair. Krittika runs from Aries into Taurus after pada 1, 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 — so the total follows, anywhere from 22.5 to 27.5 of 36 depending on the padas. At 5 guna the swing sits above the median of 2, in a range reaching 14 at its widest.
Koota by Koota
Pada 1 on each side, and what every koota is reading for Krittika with Jyeshtha. Varna and Gana are the two directional tests, which is why each name gets a column: Varna differs between them.
| Koota | Krittika bride | Jyeshtha bride | What it reads |
|---|---|---|---|
| Varna / 1 | 1 | 0 | Jyeshtha: Brahmin · Krittika: Kshatriya |
| Vashya / 2 | 0–1 | 0–1 | Jyeshtha: Keet · Krittika: Chatushpada |
| Tara / 3 | 1.5 | 1.5 | Counting from Krittika: Vadha (7) · from Jyeshtha: Kshema (4) |
| Yoni / 4 | 1–3 | 1–3 | Jyeshtha: Deer · Krittika: Sheep |
| Graha Maitri / 5 | 5 | 5 | Jyeshtha: Mars · Krittika: Mars |
| Gana / 6 | 6 | 6 | Jyeshtha: Rakshasa · Krittika: Rakshasa |
| Bhakoot / 7 | 0 | 0 | Scorpio and Aries — 8/6 |
| Nadi / 8 | 8 | 8 | Jyeshtha: Adi (Vata) · Krittika: Antya (Kapha) |
| Total / 36 | 22.5–25.5 | 21.5–24.5 | Acceptable |
- Bhakoot, 0 of 7 — Scorpio and Aries — 8/6. One of the three forbidden distances, and Bhakoot is all or nothing.
- Tara, 1.5 of 3 — Counting from Krittika: Vadha (7) · from Jyeshtha: Kshema (4). One count of the two is inauspicious and the other is not, which halves the koota.
- Yoni, 1–3 of 4 — Jyeshtha: Deer · Krittika: Sheep. Not the same animal, not a hostile pair, so the graded middle.
- Vashya, 0–1 of 2 — Jyeshtha: Keet · Krittika: Chatushpada. Neither the same group nor the agreed zero, so the graded middle where lineages differ.
Half-guna figures are exact rather than rounded. Each koota’s rule is set out in full on Krittika’s table and Jyeshtha’s.
All Sixteen Pada Combinations
Krittika runs Aries 26°40′ – Taurus 10°00′ and Jyeshtha runs Scorpio 16°40′ – 30°00′ — two arcs 13°20′ wide, each divided into four padas of 3°20′, which puts the two Moons anywhere between 146°40′ and 173°20′ apart. Every cell below holds two totals: Krittika as bride first, Jyeshtha as bride second. The cells are not all the same, which is the point of printing them — 21.5 at the lowest and 27.5 at the highest.
| Krittika ↓ / Jyeshtha → | Pada 1Scorpio | Pada 2Scorpio | Pada 3Scorpio | Pada 4Scorpio |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pada 1Aries | 22.5 / 21.5 | 22.5 / 21.5 | 22.5 / 21.5 | 22.5 / 21.5 |
| Pada 2Taurus | 27.5 / 26.5 | 27.5 / 26.5 | 27.5 / 26.5 | 27.5 / 26.5 |
| Pada 3Taurus | 27.5 / 26.5 | 27.5 / 26.5 | 27.5 / 26.5 | 27.5 / 26.5 |
| Pada 4Taurus | 27.5 / 26.5 | 27.5 / 26.5 | 27.5 / 26.5 | 27.5 / 26.5 |
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
The two heavy kootas, checked with their cancellations. Neither gives a partial score, so each is worth 8 and 7 guna outright or nothing at all.
Nadi Koota — 8 of 8
Krittika is Antya (Kapha) and Jyeshtha is Adi (Vata). 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 4 of the sixteen pada combinations, the two Moon signs stand at one of the three forbidden distances and Bhakoot gives nothing. The commonly cited cancellation covers each of those cells: both signs answer to Mars.
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 Jyeshtha 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 Krittika to Jyeshtha is 16. 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: 16 from Krittika and 13 from Jyeshtha, 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), Jyeshtha is Tikshna (sharp) — 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: 22.5 of 36 puts Jyeshtha 7th among Krittika's 27 possible partners and Krittika 9th among Jyeshtha's, both on the pada-1 figures those two tables print.
In Krittika’s table
7th of 27
Jyeshtha scores 22.5 there, level with 1 other partner. Krittika’s 27 partners run from 9.5 to 30 with a median of 20, so this one sits above the middle of what Krittika can reach — all 27 rows.
In Jyeshtha’s table
9th of 27
Krittika scores 22.5 there outright. Jyeshtha’s 27 partners run from 4 to 31 with a median of 19, so this one sits above the middle of what Jyeshtha 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 Jyeshtha 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 Krittika page and the Jyeshtha page.
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Run It On the Real Padas
The grid above narrows Krittika and Jyeshtha to sixteen answers between 22.5 and 27.5. Two birth times pick one of them.
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