Magha and Mula nakshatra matching

Koota by Koota

All eight kootas for Magha and Mula, taken at pada 1 each. Two columns because Varna and Gana can score differently by direction where the other six cannot: here neither one differs, so the two columns agree.

• Bhakoot, 0 of 7 — Sagittarius and Leo — 5/9. A forbidden rashi distance, so all seven guna go at once.
• Vashya, 0 of 2 — Mula: Manav · Magha: Vanachar. The one combination every published table scores at nothing.
• Yoni, 1–3 of 4 — Mula: Dog · Magha: Rat. The middle of this koota, where tables give one, two or three guna.

Half-guna figures are exact rather than rounded. Each koota’s rule is set out in full on Magha’s table and Mula’s.

All Sixteen Pada Combinations

Magha runs Leo 0°00′ – 13°20′ and Mula runs Sagittarius 0°00′ – 13°20′ — two arcs 13°20′ wide, each divided into four padas of 3°20′, which puts the two Moons anywhere between 106°40′ and 133°20′ apart. Every cell below holds two totals: Magha as bride first, Mula as bride second. All sixteen read alike, so the padas can be left out of this one.

Strict reading of the two disputed kootas throughout. The generous reading of Yoni and Vashya adds 2 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.

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

Two tests the eight kootas leave out, both settled by the distance between the two stars: Magha to Mula is 10 and back is 19, counting inclusively.

• Mahendra — present. 10 stars between them, against a favourable set of 4, 7, 10, 13, 16, 19, 22 and 25. 108 of the 351 pairs land on one of those.
• Stri-Dirgha — satisfied both ways. The count from the bride's star should pass nine — 10 with Magha as bride, 19 with Mula — and 135 pairs clear it both ways against 216 that clear it one way. It holds either way round here.

Neither test touches the 36. Muhurta nature is a different question again — Magha is Ugra / Krura (fierce), Mula is Tikshna (sharp) — and it governs what each star suits doing, not who it marries.

How the Pair Ranks on Each Side

The same 24 of 36 reads differently from each side, because each star is being compared with a different 27: 8th place in Magha's table, 8th in Mula's. Both positions can be checked by counting rows there — the figures are the ones those tables print.

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