Ashtakoot Guna Milan · Pair
Purva Ashadha and Purva Bhadrapada nakshatra matching
28.5–30.5 of 36 with Purva Ashadha as bride, 29.5–31.5 with Purva Bhadrapada as bride — then computed again for all sixteen pada combinations.
Purva Ashadha: Madhya (Pitta) nadi · Monkey yoni · Manushya gana | Purva Bhadrapada: Adi (Vata) nadi · Lion yoni · Manushya gana
Purva Ashadha as bride
28.5–30.5
of 36
Purva Bhadrapada as bride
29.5–31.5
of 36
Across all padas
27.5–29.5
spread of 2
Of the eight kootas, 4 leave something on the table for this pair and 4 do not. Graha Maitri is the largest at 3 of 5 — Purva Bhadrapada: Saturn · Purva Ashadha: Jupiter. The complete ones are Vashya, Gana, Bhakoot and Nadi, which is 23 of the 36 guna earned before any deduction is applied.
The pada decides part of this one. Purva Ashadha passes the mid-point of Sagittarius after pada 1, which moves it from the Manav vashya group into Chatushpada and Purva Bhadrapada runs from Aquarius into Pisces after pada 3, 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. Across the sixteen combinations the total moves between 27.5 and 29.5, a swing of 2 guna against a median of 2 for all 351 pairs.
Koota by Koota
Pada 1 on each side, and what every koota is reading for Purva Ashadha with Purva Bhadrapada. Varna and Gana are the two directional tests, which is why each name gets a column: Varna differs between them.
| Koota | Purva Ashadha bride | Purva Bhadrapada bride | What it reads |
|---|---|---|---|
| Varna / 1 | 0 | 1 | Purva Bhadrapada: Shudra · Purva Ashadha: Kshatriya |
| Vashya / 2 | 2 | 2 | Purva Bhadrapada: Manav · Purva Ashadha: Manav |
| Tara / 3 | 1.5 | 1.5 | Counting from Purva Ashadha: Sadhaka (6) · from Purva Bhadrapada: Pratyari (5) |
| Yoni / 4 | 1–3 | 1–3 | Purva Bhadrapada: Lion · Purva Ashadha: Monkey |
| Graha Maitri / 5 | 3 | 3 | Purva Bhadrapada: Saturn · Purva Ashadha: Jupiter |
| Gana / 6 | 6 | 6 | Purva Bhadrapada: Manushya · Purva Ashadha: Manushya |
| Bhakoot / 7 | 7 | 7 | Aquarius and Sagittarius — 3/11 |
| Nadi / 8 | 8 | 8 | Purva Bhadrapada: Adi (Vata) · Purva Ashadha: Madhya (Pitta) |
| Total / 36 | 28.5–30.5 | 29.5–31.5 | Good |
- Graha Maitri, 3 of 5 — Purva Bhadrapada: Saturn · Purva Ashadha: Jupiter. 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 Purva Ashadha: Sadhaka (6) · from Purva Bhadrapada: Pratyari (5). One count of the two is inauspicious and the other is not, which halves the koota.
- Yoni, 1–3 of 4 — Purva Bhadrapada: Lion · Purva Ashadha: Monkey. Not the same animal, not a hostile pair, so the graded middle.
- Varna, 0 of 1 — Purva Bhadrapada: Shudra · Purva Ashadha: 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 Purva Ashadha’s table and Purva Bhadrapada’s.
All Sixteen Pada Combinations
Purva Ashadha runs Sagittarius 13°20′ – 26°40′ and Purva Bhadrapada runs Aquarius 20°00′ – Pisces 3°20′ — 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: Purva Ashadha as bride first, Purva Bhadrapada as bride second. The cells are not all the same, which is the point of printing them — 26.5 at the lowest and 29.5 at the highest.
| Purva Ashadha ↓ / Purva Bhadrapada → | Pada 1Aquarius | Pada 2Aquarius | Pada 3Aquarius | Pada 4Pisces |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pada 1Sagittarius | 28.5 / 29.5 | 28.5 / 29.5 | 28.5 / 29.5 | 29.5 / 28.5 |
| Pada 2Sagittarius | 26.5 / 27.5 | 26.5 / 27.5 | 26.5 / 27.5 | 29.5 / 28.5 |
| Pada 3Sagittarius | 26.5 / 27.5 | 26.5 / 27.5 | 26.5 / 27.5 | 29.5 / 28.5 |
| Pada 4Sagittarius | 26.5 / 27.5 | 26.5 / 27.5 | 26.5 / 27.5 | 29.5 / 28.5 |
Strict reading of the two disputed kootas throughout. The generous reading of Yoni and Vashya adds between 2 and 3 guna, depending on the 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
Fifteen of the 36 guna sit in these two, and both are all-or-nothing. Their cancellations are stated specifically enough to be checked for Purva Ashadha and Purva Bhadrapada rather than guessed at.
Nadi Koota — 8 of 8
Purva Ashadha is Madhya (Pitta) and Purva Bhadrapada 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 — 7 of 7 at pada 1
Aquarius and Sagittarius — 3/11 — 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 Purva Ashadha and Purva 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 Purva Ashadha to Purva Bhadrapada 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 Purva Ashadha and 23 from Purva Bhadrapada, against a threshold sources give as seven or as nine. It holds with Purva Bhadrapada as the bride and not with Purva Ashadha.
Neither test touches the 36. Muhurta nature is a different question again — Purva Ashadha is Ugra / Krura (fierce), Purva Bhadrapada is Ugra / Krura (fierce) — 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: 29.5 of 36 puts Purva Bhadrapada 3rd among Purva Ashadha's 27 possible partners and Purva Ashadha 1st among Purva Bhadrapada's, both on the pada-1 figures those two tables print.
In Purva Ashadha’s table
3rd of 27
Purva Bhadrapada scores 29.5 there outright. Purva Ashadha’s 27 partners run from 9 to 31 with a median of 22.5, so this one sits above the middle of what Purva Ashadha can reach — all 27 rows.
In Purva Bhadrapada’s table
1st of 27
Purva Ashadha scores 29.5 there, level with 1 other partner. Purva Bhadrapada’s 27 partners run from 13 to 29.5 with a median of 21.5, so this one sits above the middle of what Purva Bhadrapada can reach — all 27 rows.
What This Total Is Not
The whole of Ashtakoot for Purva Ashadha and Purva Bhadrapada 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 Purva Ashadha page and the Purva Bhadrapada page.
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Run It On the Real Padas
The grid above narrows Purva Ashadha and Purva Bhadrapada to sixteen answers between 27.5 and 29.5. Two birth times pick one of them.
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