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Purva Ashadha and Shatabhisha nakshatra matching
22.5–24.5 of 36 with Purva Ashadha as bride, 26.5–28.5 with Shatabhisha as bride — then computed again for all sixteen pada combinations.
Purva Ashadha: Madhya (Pitta) nadi · Monkey yoni · Manushya gana | Shatabhisha: Adi (Vata) nadi · Horse yoni · Rakshasa gana
Purva Ashadha as bride
22.5–24.5
of 36
Shatabhisha as bride
26.5–28.5
of 36
Across all padas
24.5–26.5
spread of 2
Reading the eight kootas in order for Purva Ashadha and Shatabhisha: Gana is where the largest deduction falls — Shatabhisha: Rakshasa · Purva Ashadha: Manushya, so 0 of 6, with Graha Maitri at 3 of 5, Tara at 1.5 of 3, Yoni at 1–3 of 4 and Varna at 0 of 1 behind it. The remaining 3 kootas are complete, which puts the pair at 22.5–24.5 one way round and 26.5–28.5 the other.
Two birth stars are not enough for this pair. Purva Ashadha passes the mid-point of Sagittarius after pada 1, which moves it from the Manav vashya group into Chatushpada, and Vashya is read from the half of the sign the Moon falls in, so two guna turn on that mid-point — so the total follows, anywhere from 24.5 to 26.5 of 36 depending on the padas. At 2 guna the swing sits on the median of 2, in a range reaching 14 at its widest.
Koota by Koota
All eight kootas for Purva Ashadha and Shatabhisha, taken at pada 1 each. Two columns because Varna and Gana can score differently by direction where the other six cannot: Varna and Gana differ between them.
| Koota | Purva Ashadha bride | Shatabhisha bride | What it reads |
|---|---|---|---|
| Varna / 1 | 0 | 1 | Shatabhisha: Shudra · Purva Ashadha: Kshatriya |
| Vashya / 2 | 2 | 2 | Shatabhisha: Manav · Purva Ashadha: Manav |
| Tara / 3 | 1.5 | 1.5 | Counting from Purva Ashadha: Pratyari (5) · from Shatabhisha: Sadhaka (6) |
| Yoni / 4 | 1–3 | 1–3 | Shatabhisha: Horse · Purva Ashadha: Monkey |
| Graha Maitri / 5 | 3 | 3 | Shatabhisha: Saturn · Purva Ashadha: Jupiter |
| Gana / 6 | 0 | 3 | Shatabhisha: Rakshasa · Purva Ashadha: Manushya |
| Bhakoot / 7 | 7 | 7 | Aquarius and Sagittarius — 3/11 |
| Nadi / 8 | 8 | 8 | Shatabhisha: Adi (Vata) · Purva Ashadha: Madhya (Pitta) |
| Total / 36 | 22.5–24.5 | 26.5–28.5 | Good |
- Gana, 0 of 6 — Shatabhisha: Rakshasa · Purva Ashadha: Manushya. The gentle temperament is held to bear the cost of the forceful one unevenly.
- Graha Maitri, 3 of 5 — Shatabhisha: Saturn · Purva Ashadha: Jupiter. The mental-compatibility koota, and the sign lords fall short of friendship.
- Tara, 1.5 of 3 — Counting from Purva Ashadha: Pratyari (5) · from Shatabhisha: Sadhaka (6). Half the koota, because the count is unfavourable in one direction only.
- Yoni, 1–3 of 4 — Shatabhisha: Horse · Purva Ashadha: Monkey. The middle of this koota, where tables give one, two or three guna.
- Varna, 0 of 1 — Shatabhisha: Shudra · Purva Ashadha: Kshatriya. A deliberately one-way test on rank, failed in this direction. It is one point of thirty-six.
Half-guna figures are exact rather than rounded. Each koota’s rule is set out in full on Purva Ashadha’s table and Shatabhisha’s.
All Sixteen Pada Combinations
Purva Ashadha runs Sagittarius 13°20′ – 26°40′ and Shatabhisha runs Aquarius 6°40′ – 20°00′ — 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: Purva Ashadha as bride first, Shatabhisha as bride second. The cells are not all the same, which is the point of printing them — 20.5 at the lowest and 26.5 at the highest.
| Purva Ashadha ↓ / Shatabhisha → | Pada 1Aquarius | Pada 2Aquarius | Pada 3Aquarius | Pada 4Aquarius |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pada 1Sagittarius | 22.5 / 26.5 | 22.5 / 26.5 | 22.5 / 26.5 | 22.5 / 26.5 |
| Pada 2Sagittarius | 20.5 / 24.5 | 20.5 / 24.5 | 20.5 / 24.5 | 20.5 / 24.5 |
| Pada 3Sagittarius | 20.5 / 24.5 | 20.5 / 24.5 | 20.5 / 24.5 | 20.5 / 24.5 |
| Pada 4Sagittarius | 20.5 / 24.5 | 20.5 / 24.5 | 20.5 / 24.5 | 20.5 / 24.5 |
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
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
Purva Ashadha is Madhya (Pitta) and Shatabhisha 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
Two tests the eight kootas leave out, both settled by the distance between the two stars: Purva Ashadha to Shatabhisha is 5 and back is 24, counting inclusively.
- Mahendra — absent. 5 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 one way. The count from the bride's star should pass nine — 5 with Purva Ashadha as bride, 24 with Shatabhisha — and 135 pairs clear it both ways against 216 that clear it one way. It holds with Shatabhisha 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), Shatabhisha is Chara (movable) — and it governs what each star suits doing, not who it marries.
How the Pair Ranks on Each Side
The same 26.5 of 36 reads differently from each side, because each star is being compared with a different 27: 7th place in Purva Ashadha's table, 2nd in Shatabhisha's. Both positions can be checked by counting rows there — the figures are the ones those tables print.
In Purva Ashadha’s table
7th of 27
Shatabhisha scores 26.5 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 Shatabhisha’s table
2nd of 27
Purva Ashadha scores 26.5 there, level with 1 other partner. Shatabhisha’s 27 partners run from 9.5 to 28 with a median of 21.5, so this one sits above the middle of what Shatabhisha can reach — all 27 rows.
What This Total Is Not
What the breakdown says matters more than where the total lands. A high figure sitting on a zero in Nadi or Bhakoot is a different proposition from the same figure earned evenly across the eight, and 18 of 36 is a threshold families use rather than a rule any classical text states.
Written rather than computed, and worth the longer read: kundli matching for marriage, end to end and the 36 guna taken one koota at a time. The full profiles of the two stars — deities, symbols, temperament, the syllables used for naming — are on the Purva Ashadha page and the Shatabhisha page.
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Run It On the Real Padas
The grid above narrows Purva Ashadha and Shatabhisha to sixteen answers between 24.5 and 26.5. Two birth times pick one of them.
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