Ashtakoot Guna Milan · Pair
Pushya and Hasta nakshatra matching
24.5–27.5 of 36 with Pushya as bride, 25.5–28.5 with Hasta as bride — then computed again for all sixteen pada combinations.
Pushya: Madhya (Pitta) nadi · Sheep yoni · Deva gana | Hasta: Adi (Vata) nadi · Buffalo yoni · Deva gana
Pushya as bride
24.5–27.5
of 36
Hasta as bride
25.5–28.5
of 36
Across all padas
25.5
one answer
Pushya and Hasta come to 24.5–27.5 of 36 with Pushya on the bride's side and 25.5–28.5 with Hasta on it. What sits behind those two figures: Gana, Bhakoot and Nadi score in full, while Graha Maitri (1 of 5), Tara (1.5 of 3), Yoni (1–3 of 4), Vashya (0–1 of 2) and Varna (0 of 1) do not, and Graha Maitri on its own accounts for 4 of the guna that go missing.
All sixteen combinations give the same answer. Neither star crosses a boundary of any kind between its padas, so the totals below are the whole result and the birth times only need to be accurate enough to fix the nakshatra. This pair is one of the 120 of 351 where that is true.
Koota by Koota
Pada 1 on each side, and what every koota is reading for Pushya with Hasta. Varna and Gana are the two directional tests, which is why each name gets a column: Varna differs between them.
| Koota | Pushya bride | Hasta bride | What it reads |
|---|---|---|---|
| Varna / 1 | 0 | 1 | Hasta: Vaishya · Pushya: Brahmin |
| Vashya / 2 | 0–1 | 0–1 | Hasta: Manav · Pushya: Jalachar |
| Tara / 3 | 1.5 | 1.5 | Counting from Pushya: Sadhaka (6) · from Hasta: Pratyari (5) |
| Yoni / 4 | 1–3 | 1–3 | Hasta: Buffalo · Pushya: Sheep |
| Graha Maitri / 5 | 1 | 1 | Hasta: Mercury · Pushya: Moon |
| Gana / 6 | 6 | 6 | Hasta: Deva · Pushya: Deva |
| Bhakoot / 7 | 7 | 7 | Virgo and Cancer — 3/11 |
| Nadi / 8 | 8 | 8 | Hasta: Adi (Vata) · Pushya: Madhya (Pitta) |
| Total / 36 | 24.5–27.5 | 25.5–28.5 | Good |
- Graha Maitri, 1 of 5 — Hasta: Mercury · 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: Sadhaka (6) · from Hasta: Pratyari (5). One count of the two is inauspicious and the other is not, which halves the koota.
- Yoni, 1–3 of 4 — Hasta: Buffalo · Pushya: Sheep. Not the same animal, not a hostile pair, so the graded middle.
- Vashya, 0–1 of 2 — Hasta: Manav · Pushya: Jalachar. Neither the same group nor the agreed zero, so the graded middle where lineages differ.
- Varna, 0 of 1 — Hasta: 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 Hasta’s.
All Sixteen Pada Combinations
Pushya runs Cancer 3°20′ – 16°40′ and Hasta runs Virgo 10°00′ – 23°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: Pushya as bride first, Hasta as bride second. All sixteen read alike, so the padas can be left out of this one.
| Pushya ↓ / Hasta → | Pada 1Virgo | Pada 2Virgo | Pada 3Virgo | Pada 4Virgo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pada 1Cancer | 24.5 / 25.5 | 24.5 / 25.5 | 24.5 / 25.5 | 24.5 / 25.5 |
| Pada 2Cancer | 24.5 / 25.5 | 24.5 / 25.5 | 24.5 / 25.5 | 24.5 / 25.5 |
| Pada 3Cancer | 24.5 / 25.5 | 24.5 / 25.5 | 24.5 / 25.5 | 24.5 / 25.5 |
| Pada 4Cancer | 24.5 / 25.5 | 24.5 / 25.5 | 24.5 / 25.5 | 24.5 / 25.5 |
Strict reading of the two disputed kootas throughout. The generous reading of Yoni and Vashya adds 3 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
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 Pushya and Hasta rather than guessed at.
Nadi Koota — 8 of 8
Pushya is Madhya (Pitta) and Hasta 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
Virgo and Cancer — 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 Pushya and Hasta 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 Hasta 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 Pushya and 23 from Hasta, against a threshold sources give as seven or as nine. It holds with Hasta 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), Hasta is Kshipra / Laghu (swift and light) — 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: 25.5 of 36 puts Hasta 5th among Pushya's 27 possible partners and Pushya 5th among Hasta's, both on the pada-1 figures those two tables print.
In Pushya’s table
5th of 27
Hasta scores 25.5 there outright. 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 Hasta’s table
5th of 27
Pushya scores 25.5 there, level with 1 other partner. Hasta’s 27 partners run from 9 to 28 with a median of 22.5, so this one sits above the middle of what Hasta 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 Hasta 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: Venus, and what it decides about a marriage and the Kundli Milan guide written from these numbers. The full profiles of the two stars — deities, symbols, temperament, the syllables used for naming — are on the Pushya page and the Hasta page.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Run It On the Real Padas
The score is settled for Pushya and Hasta, but the doshas, the seventh house and the running dasha are not — and those are what a chart is for.
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