Ashtakoot Guna Milan · Pair

Pushya and Ashlesha nakshatra matching

27–29 of 36 with Pushya as bride, 28–30 with Ashlesha as bride — then computed again for all sixteen pada combinations.

Pushya: Madhya (Pitta) nadi · Sheep yoni · Deva gana | Ashlesha: Antya (Kapha) nadi · Cat yoni · Rakshasa gana

Pushya as bride

27–29

of 36

Ashlesha as bride

28–30

of 36

Across all padas

one answer

Pushya and Ashlesha come to 27–29 of 36 with Pushya on the bride's side and 28–30 with Ashlesha on it. What sits behind those two figures: Varna, Vashya, Tara, Graha Maitri, Bhakoot and Nadi score in full, while Gana (0 of 6) and Yoni (1–3 of 4) do not, and Gana on its own accounts for 6 of the guna that go missing.

Worth stating because most matching sites imply otherwise: for Pushya and Ashlesha the padas change nothing. Sixteen combinations, one answer. The exact minute of birth still decides plenty in a chart — it just does not decide this.

Koota by Koota

Pada 1 on each side, and what every koota is reading for Pushya with Ashlesha. Varna and Gana are the two directional tests, which is why each name gets a column: Gana differs between them.

Ashtakoot koota scores for Pushya with Ashlesha at pada 1 on both sides, shown separately for each partner on the bride’s side, with the values each koota reads.
Koota	Pushya bride	Ashlesha bride	What it reads
Varna / 1	1	1	Ashlesha: Brahmin · Pushya: Brahmin
Vashya / 2	2	2	Ashlesha: Jalachar · Pushya: Jalachar
Tara / 3	3	3	Counting from Pushya: Sampat (2) · from Ashlesha: Ati-Mitra (9)
Yoni / 4	1–3	1–3	Ashlesha: Cat · Pushya: Sheep
Graha Maitri / 5	5	5	Ashlesha: Moon · Pushya: Moon
Gana / 6	0	1	Ashlesha: Rakshasa · Pushya: Deva
Bhakoot / 7	7	7	Cancer and Cancer — 1/1
Nadi / 8	8	8	Ashlesha: Antya (Kapha) · Pushya: Madhya (Pitta)
Total / 36	27–29	28–30	Good

Gana, 0 of 6 — Ashlesha: Rakshasa · Pushya: Deva. Directional: swap the partners and the same two ganas score differently.
Yoni, 1–3 of 4 — Ashlesha: Cat · Pushya: Sheep. Not the same animal, not a hostile pair, so the graded middle.

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

All Sixteen Pada Combinations

Pushya runs Cancer 3°20′ – 16°40′ and Ashlesha runs Cancer 16°40′ – 30°00′ — two arcs 13°20′ wide, each divided into four padas of 3°20′, which puts the two Moons anywhere between 0°00′ and 26°40′ apart. Every cell below holds two totals: Pushya as bride first, Ashlesha as bride second. All sixteen read alike, so the padas can be left out of this one.

Ashtakoot totals out of 36 for Pushya with Ashlesha across all sixteen pada combinations, each cell giving Pushya as bride then Ashlesha as bride, on the strict reading of Yoni and Vashya.
Pushya ↓ / Ashlesha →	Pada 1Cancer	Pada 2Cancer	Pada 3Cancer	Pada 4Cancer
Pada 1Cancer	27 / 28	27 / 28	27 / 28	27 / 28
Pada 2Cancer	27 / 28	27 / 28	27 / 28	27 / 28
Pada 3Cancer	27 / 28	27 / 28	27 / 28	27 / 28
Pada 4Cancer	27 / 28	27 / 28	27 / 28	27 / 28

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.

Nadi Koota — 8 of 8

Pushya is Madhya (Pitta) and Ashlesha is Antya (Kapha). 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 Cancer — 1/1 — 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 Pushya and Ashlesha 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 Pushya to Ashlesha is 2. 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: 2 from Pushya and 27 from Ashlesha, against a threshold sources give as seven or as nine. It holds with Ashlesha as the bride and not with Pushya.

Neither test touches the 36. Muhurta nature is a different question again — Pushya is Kshipra / Laghu (swift and light), Ashlesha is Tikshna (sharp) — 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: 28 of 36 puts Ashlesha 2nd among Pushya's 27 possible partners and Pushya 1st among Ashlesha's, both on the pada-1 figures those two tables print.

In Pushya’s table

2nd of 27

Ashlesha scores 28 there, level with 1 other partner. 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.

In Ashlesha’s table

1st of 27

Pushya scores 28 there, level with 1 other partner. Ashlesha’s 27 partners run from 9.5 to 28 with a median of 18, so this one sits above the middle of what Ashlesha 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 Pushya and Ashlesha 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 Pushya page and the Ashlesha page.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many guna do Pushya and Ashlesha score?

27–29 of 36 with Pushya as the bride and 28–30 with Ashlesha as the bride, taking pada 1 on both sides. The padas do not change it — all sixteen combinations give the same answer, which makes this one of the 146 pairs of 351 where the two birth stars settle the score outright. The generous reading of Yoni and Vashya adds 2 guna to every cell. Against every possible pairing of two Moon positions, 63.6% clear 18 and the median is 20.5.

Are Pushya and Ashlesha compatible?

On Ashtakoot the conservative reading puts Pushya with Ashlesha at good. The guna are lost on Gana (0 of 6) and Yoni (1–3 of 4). Read that as a filter result, not as a recommendation. A koota scoring zero — here Gana — is the part worth taking to an astrologer rather than to a calculator.

Does the pada change the result for Pushya and Ashlesha?

No. Every one of the sixteen pada combinations returns the same total for Pushya and Ashlesha. Neither star crosses a boundary between its padas, so all four sit in one rashi and one half of it, and no koota can move. 120 of the 351 pairs behave this way.

Do Pushya and Ashlesha have Bhakoot dosha?

No. The two Moon signs never fall at one of the three forbidden distances — 6/8 Shadashtaka, 5/9 Navapanchaka or 2/12 Dwirdwadasha — in any of the sixteen pada combinations, so Bhakoot scores its full seven throughout. Bhakoot is all or nothing: there is no partial score.

Is it better for Pushya to be the bride or the groom?

On the arithmetic, Ashlesha on the bride's side scores higher — 28–30 against 27–29. Varna and Gana are the only kootas that can do that, and here Gana goes from 0 with Pushya as bride to 1 with Ashlesha as bride. 314 of the 351 pairs move like this, so a calculator that takes two stars without asking who is the bride has picked a direction for you.

Run It On the Real Padas

The score is settled for Pushya and Ashlesha, but the doshas, the seventh house and the running dasha are not — and those are what a chart is for.

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