Ashtakoot Guna Milan · Pair
Krittika and Pushya nakshatra matching
26.5–27.5 of 36 with Krittika as bride, 24.5–25.5 with Pushya as bride — then computed again for all sixteen pada combinations.
Krittika: Antya (Kapha) nadi · Sheep yoni · Rakshasa gana | Pushya: Madhya (Pitta) nadi · Sheep yoni · Deva gana
Krittika as bride
26.5–27.5
of 36
Pushya as bride
24.5–25.5
of 36
Across all padas
23–26.5
spread of 3.5
Of the eight kootas, 4 leave something on the table for this pair and 4 do not. Gana is the largest at 1 of 6 — Pushya: Deva · Krittika: Rakshasa. The complete ones are Varna, Yoni, Bhakoot and Nadi, which is 20 of the 36 guna earned before any deduction is applied.
A swing of 3.5 guna separates the best and worst cells in the grid below — 23 at the bottom, 26.5 at the top. The cause is a boundary inside the four padas: Krittika runs from Aries into Taurus after pada 1. 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 Pushya. Varna and Gana are the two directional tests, which is why each name gets a column: Varna and Gana differ between them.
| Koota | Krittika bride | Pushya bride | What it reads |
|---|---|---|---|
| Varna / 1 | 1 | 0 | Pushya: Brahmin · Krittika: Kshatriya |
| Vashya / 2 | 0–1 | 0–1 | Pushya: Jalachar · Krittika: Chatushpada |
| Tara / 3 | 1.5 | 1.5 | Counting from Krittika: Sadhaka (6) · from Pushya: Pratyari (5) |
| Yoni / 4 | 4 | 4 | Pushya: Sheep · Krittika: Sheep |
| Graha Maitri / 5 | 4 | 4 | Pushya: Moon · Krittika: Mars |
| Gana / 6 | 1 | 0 | Pushya: Deva · Krittika: Rakshasa |
| Bhakoot / 7 | 7 | 7 | Cancer and Aries — 4/10 |
| Nadi / 8 | 8 | 8 | Pushya: Madhya (Pitta) · Krittika: Antya (Kapha) |
| Total / 36 | 26.5–27.5 | 24.5–25.5 | Good |
- Gana, 1 of 6 — Pushya: Deva · Krittika: Rakshasa. Directional: swap the partners and the same two ganas score differently.
- Tara, 1.5 of 3 — Counting from Krittika: Sadhaka (6) · from Pushya: Pratyari (5). One count of the two is inauspicious and the other is not, which halves the koota.
- Graha Maitri, 4 of 5 — Pushya: Moon · Krittika: Mars. Five guna ride on how the two sign lords regard each other, more than any other single test.
- Vashya, 0–1 of 2 — Pushya: Jalachar · 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 Pushya’s.
All Sixteen Pada Combinations
Krittika runs Aries 26°40′ – Taurus 10°00′ and Pushya runs Cancer 3°20′ – 16°40′ — two arcs 13°20′ wide, each divided into four padas of 3°20′, which puts the two Moons anywhere between 53°20′ and 80°00′ apart. Every cell below holds two totals: Krittika as bride first, Pushya as bride second. The cells are not all the same, which is the point of printing them — 21 at the lowest and 26.5 at the highest.
| Krittika ↓ / Pushya → | Pada 1Cancer | Pada 2Cancer | Pada 3Cancer | Pada 4Cancer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pada 1Aries | 26.5 / 24.5 | 26.5 / 24.5 | 26.5 / 24.5 | 26.5 / 24.5 |
| Pada 2Taurus | 23 / 21 | 23 / 21 | 23 / 21 | 23 / 21 |
| Pada 3Taurus | 23 / 21 | 23 / 21 | 23 / 21 | 23 / 21 |
| Pada 4Taurus | 23 / 21 | 23 / 21 | 23 / 21 | 23 / 21 |
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.
Nadi Koota — 8 of 8
Krittika is Antya (Kapha) and Pushya 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 — 7 of 7 at pada 1
Cancer and Aries — 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. 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 Pushya 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 Pushya is 6. 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: 6 from Krittika and 23 from Pushya, against a threshold sources give as seven or as nine. It holds with Pushya as the bride and not with Krittika.
Neither test touches the 36. Muhurta nature is a different question again — Krittika is Mishra (mixed), Pushya is Kshipra / Laghu (swift and light) — 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 Pushya 3rd among Krittika's 27 possible partners and Krittika 4th among Pushya's, both on the pada-1 figures those two tables print.
In Krittika’s table
3rd of 27
Pushya scores 26.5 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 Pushya’s table
4th of 27
Krittika scores 26.5 there outright. Pushya’s 27 partners run from 11.5 to 28.5 with a median of 19.5, so this one sits above the middle of what Pushya can reach — all 27 rows.
What This Total Is Not
The whole of Ashtakoot for Krittika and Pushya rests on two arcs of the zodiac 13°20′ wide. Everything a chart is usually read for — the seventh house and its lord, Venus and Mars, Mangal dosha, the dasha each partner is running — sits outside those two arcs and outside this total, which is why good is a starting point for a conversation and not the end of one.
Written rather than computed, and worth the longer read: what a birth date alone can and cannot settle and how to check compatibility in a kundli. The full profiles of the two stars — deities, symbols, temperament, the syllables used for naming — are on the Krittika page and the Pushya page.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Run It On the Real Padas
The grid above narrows Krittika and Pushya to sixteen answers between 23 and 26.5. Two birth times pick one of them.
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