Ashtakoot Guna Milan · Pair
Krittika and Uttara Bhadrapada nakshatra matching
19.5–22.5 of 36 with Krittika as bride, 15.5–18.5 with Uttara Bhadrapada as bride — then computed again for all sixteen pada combinations.
Krittika: Antya (Kapha) nadi · Sheep yoni · Rakshasa gana | Uttara Bhadrapada: Madhya (Pitta) nadi · Cow yoni · Manushya gana
Krittika as bride
19.5–22.5
of 36
Uttara Bhadrapada as bride
15.5–18.5
of 36
Across all padas
19.5–22
spread of 2.5
Krittika and Uttara Bhadrapada come to 19.5–22.5 of 36 with Krittika on the bride's side and 15.5–18.5 with Uttara Bhadrapada on it. What sits behind those two figures: Varna, Graha Maitri and Nadi score in full, while Bhakoot (0 of 7), Gana (3 of 6), 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.
A swing of 2.5 guna separates the best and worst cells in the grid below — 19.5 at the bottom, 22 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 Uttara Bhadrapada. 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 | Uttara Bhadrapada bride | What it reads |
|---|---|---|---|
| Varna / 1 | 1 | 0 | Uttara Bhadrapada: Brahmin · Krittika: Kshatriya |
| Vashya / 2 | 0–1 | 0–1 | Uttara Bhadrapada: Jalachar · Krittika: Chatushpada |
| Tara / 3 | 1.5 | 1.5 | Counting from Krittika: Sadhaka (6) · from Uttara Bhadrapada: Pratyari (5) |
| Yoni / 4 | 1–3 | 1–3 | Uttara Bhadrapada: Cow · Krittika: Sheep |
| Graha Maitri / 5 | 5 | 5 | Uttara Bhadrapada: Jupiter · Krittika: Mars |
| Gana / 6 | 3 | 0 | Uttara Bhadrapada: Manushya · Krittika: Rakshasa |
| Bhakoot / 7 | 0 | 0 | Pisces and Aries — 12/2 |
| Nadi / 8 | 8 | 8 | Uttara Bhadrapada: Madhya (Pitta) · Krittika: Antya (Kapha) |
| Total / 36 | 19.5–22.5 | 15.5–18.5 | Acceptable |
- Bhakoot, 0 of 7 — Pisces and Aries — 12/2. One of the three forbidden distances, and Bhakoot is all or nothing.
- Gana, 3 of 6 — Uttara Bhadrapada: Manushya · Krittika: Rakshasa. Directional: swap the partners and the same two ganas score differently.
- Tara, 1.5 of 3 — Counting from Krittika: Sadhaka (6) · from Uttara Bhadrapada: Pratyari (5). One count of the two is inauspicious and the other is not, which halves the koota.
- Yoni, 1–3 of 4 — Uttara Bhadrapada: Cow · Krittika: Sheep. Not the same animal, not a hostile pair, so the graded middle.
- Vashya, 0–1 of 2 — Uttara Bhadrapada: 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 Uttara Bhadrapada’s.
All Sixteen Pada Combinations
Krittika runs Aries 26°40′ – Taurus 10°00′ and Uttara Bhadrapada runs Pisces 3°20′ – 16°40′ — two arcs 13°20′ wide, each divided into four padas of 3°20′, which puts the two Moons anywhere between 40°00′ and 66°40′ apart. Every cell below holds two totals: Krittika as bride first, Uttara Bhadrapada as bride second. The cells are not all the same, which is the point of printing them — 15.5 at the lowest and 22 at the highest.
| Krittika ↓ / Uttara Bhadrapada → | Pada 1Pisces | Pada 2Pisces | Pada 3Pisces | Pada 4Pisces |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pada 1Aries | 19.5 / 15.5 | 19.5 / 15.5 | 19.5 / 15.5 | 19.5 / 15.5 |
| Pada 2Taurus | 22 / 18 | 22 / 18 | 22 / 18 | 22 / 18 |
| Pada 3Taurus | 22 / 18 | 22 / 18 | 22 / 18 | 22 / 18 |
| Pada 4Taurus | 22 / 18 | 22 / 18 | 22 / 18 | 22 / 18 |
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 Uttara Bhadrapada 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 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: Mars and Jupiter are mutual friends in the natural friendship table.
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 Uttara Bhadrapada 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 Uttara Bhadrapada is 24. 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: 24 from Krittika and 5 from Uttara Bhadrapada, against a threshold sources give as seven or as nine. It holds with Krittika as the bride and not with Uttara Bhadrapada.
Neither test touches the 36. Muhurta nature is a different question again — Krittika is Mishra (mixed), Uttara Bhadrapada is Dhruva / Sthira (fixed) — 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: 19.5 of 36 puts Uttara Bhadrapada 15th among Krittika's 27 possible partners and Krittika 16th among Uttara Bhadrapada's, both on the pada-1 figures those two tables print.
In Krittika’s table
15th of 27
Uttara Bhadrapada scores 19.5 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 below the middle of what Krittika can reach — all 27 rows.
In Uttara Bhadrapada’s table
16th of 27
Krittika scores 19.5 there, level with 1 other partner. Uttara Bhadrapada’s 27 partners run from 13 to 32 with a median of 21.5, so this one sits below the middle of what Uttara Bhadrapada 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 Uttara Bhadrapada 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 Uttara Bhadrapada page.
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Run It On the Real Padas
The grid above narrows Krittika and Uttara Bhadrapada to sixteen answers between 19.5 and 22. Two birth times pick one of them.
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