Ashtakoot Guna Milan · Pair
Pushya and Dhanishta nakshatra matching
12–14 of 36 with Pushya as bride, 14–16 with Dhanishta as bride — then computed again for all sixteen pada combinations.
Pushya: Madhya (Pitta) nadi · Sheep yoni · Deva gana | Dhanishta: Madhya (Pitta) nadi · Lion yoni · Rakshasa gana
Pushya as bride
12–14
of 36
Dhanishta as bride
14–16
of 36
Across all padas
5–14
spread of 9
Of the eight kootas, 6 leave something on the table for this pair and 2 do not. Nadi is the largest at 0 of 8 — Dhanishta: Madhya (Pitta) · Pushya: Madhya (Pitta). The complete ones are Vashya and Bhakoot, which is 9 of the 36 guna earned before any deduction is applied.
A swing of 9 guna separates the best and worst cells in the grid below — 5 at the bottom, 14 at the top. The cause is a boundary inside the four padas: Dhanishta runs from Capricorn into Aquarius after pada 2. 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 Pushya with Dhanishta. Varna and Gana are the two directional tests, which is why each name gets a column: Varna and Gana differ between them.
| Koota | Pushya bride | Dhanishta bride | What it reads |
|---|---|---|---|
| Varna / 1 | 0 | 1 | Dhanishta: Vaishya · Pushya: Brahmin |
| Vashya / 2 | 2 | 2 | Dhanishta: Jalachar · Pushya: Jalachar |
| Tara / 3 | 1.5 | 1.5 | Counting from Pushya: Vadha (7) · from Dhanishta: Kshema (4) |
| Yoni / 4 | 1–3 | 1–3 | Dhanishta: Lion · Pushya: Sheep |
| Graha Maitri / 5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | Dhanishta: Saturn · Pushya: Moon |
| Gana / 6 | 0 | 1 | Dhanishta: Rakshasa · Pushya: Deva |
| Bhakoot / 7 | 7 | 7 | Capricorn and Cancer — 7/7 |
| Nadi / 8 | 0 | 0 | Dhanishta: Madhya (Pitta) · Pushya: Madhya (Pitta) |
| Total / 36 | 12–14 | 14–16 | Below the conventional threshold |
- Nadi, 0 of 8 — Dhanishta: Madhya (Pitta) · Pushya: Madhya (Pitta). The heaviest koota in the system, all or nothing.
- Gana, 0 of 6 — Dhanishta: Rakshasa · Pushya: Deva. Directional: swap the partners and the same two ganas score differently.
- Graha Maitri, 0.5 of 5 — Dhanishta: Saturn · Pushya: Moon. 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 Pushya: Vadha (7) · from Dhanishta: Kshema (4). One count of the two is inauspicious and the other is not, which halves the koota.
- Yoni, 1–3 of 4 — Dhanishta: Lion · Pushya: Sheep. Not the same animal, not a hostile pair, so the graded middle.
- Varna, 0 of 1 — Dhanishta: Vaishya · Pushya: Brahmin. 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 Pushya’s table and Dhanishta’s.
All Sixteen Pada Combinations
Pushya runs Cancer 3°20′ – 16°40′ and Dhanishta runs Capricorn 23°20′ – Aquarius 6°40′ — two arcs 13°20′ wide, each divided into four padas of 3°20′, which puts the two Moons anywhere between 146°40′ and 173°20′ apart. Every cell below holds two totals: Pushya as bride first, Dhanishta as bride second. The cells are not all the same, which is the point of printing them — 3 at the lowest and 14 at the highest.
| Pushya ↓ / Dhanishta → | Pada 1Capricorn | Pada 2Capricorn | Pada 3Aquarius | Pada 4Aquarius |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pada 1Cancer | 12 / 14 | 12 / 14 | 3 / 5 | 3 / 5 |
| Pada 2Cancer | 12 / 14 | 12 / 14 | 3 / 5 | 3 / 5 |
| Pada 3Cancer | 12 / 14 | 12 / 14 | 3 / 5 | 3 / 5 |
| Pada 4Cancer | 12 / 14 | 12 / 14 | 3 / 5 | 3 / 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. None of the sixteen clears the conventional threshold of 18 on this reading. 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 — 0 of 8
Pushya and Dhanishta are both Madhya (Pitta), so the plain rule gives nothing. None of the three recognised cancellations reaches this pair — the same star in different padas, both Moons in one rashi, or two rashis sharing a lord — so the eight guna are lost and 28 is the ceiling for Pushya with Dhanishta however well everything else goes.
Bhakoot Koota — 7 of 7 at pada 1
In 8 of the sixteen pada combinations, the two Moon signs stand at one of the three forbidden distances and Bhakoot gives nothing. Neither cancellation is available — the sign lords are Moon and Saturn, neither the same planet nor mutual friends.
A cancellation is relief, not a score adjustment — the koota still reads zero above. Remedial practice for Nadi dosha is set out on the Nadi dosha page.
Two Tests Outside the 36
The South Indian reckoning runs to ten kootas, and two of the extras are counts between Pushya and Dhanishta alone — so they can be given here and checked by hand.
- Mahendra — present. Mahendra wants every third star from the fourth — 4, 7, 10, 13, 16, 19, 22, 25 — and Pushya to Dhanishta is 16. The two counts always add to 29, so a Mahendra pair holds whichever way round the match is made.
- Stri-Dirgha — satisfied both ways. This one is directional in earnest: 16 from Pushya and 13 from Dhanishta, against a threshold sources give as seven or as nine. It holds either way round here.
Neither test touches the 36. Muhurta nature is a different question again — Pushya is Kshipra / Laghu (swift and light), Dhanishta is Chara (movable) — 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: 14 of 36 puts Dhanishta 23rd among Pushya's 27 possible partners and Pushya 22nd among Dhanishta's, both on the pada-1 figures those two tables print.
In Pushya’s table
23rd of 27
Dhanishta scores 14 there outright. Pushya’s 27 partners run from 11.5 to 28.5 with a median of 19.5, so this one sits below the middle of what Pushya can reach — all 27 rows.
In Dhanishta’s table
22nd of 27
Pushya scores 14 there outright. Dhanishta’s 27 partners run from 6.5 to 29.5 with a median of 19, so this one sits below the middle of what Dhanishta can reach — all 27 rows.
What This Total Is Not
The whole of Ashtakoot for Pushya and Dhanishta 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 below the conventional threshold 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 Pushya page and the Dhanishta page.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Run It On the Real Padas
The grid above narrows Pushya and Dhanishta to sixteen answers between 5 and 14. Two birth times pick one of them.
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