Ashtakoot Guna Milan · Pair
Pushya and Purva Bhadrapada nakshatra matching
17.5–20.5 of 36 with Pushya as bride, 18.5–21.5 with Purva Bhadrapada as bride — then computed again for all sixteen pada combinations.
Pushya: Madhya (Pitta) nadi · Sheep yoni · Deva gana | Purva Bhadrapada: Adi (Vata) nadi · Lion yoni · Manushya gana
Pushya as bride
17.5–20.5
of 36
Purva Bhadrapada as bride
18.5–21.5
of 36
Across all padas
18.5–24
spread of 5.5
Pushya and Purva Bhadrapada come to 17.5–20.5 of 36 with Pushya on the bride's side and 18.5–21.5 with Purva Bhadrapada on it. What sits behind those two figures: Tara and Nadi score in full, while Bhakoot (0 of 7), Graha Maitri (0.5 of 5), Gana (5 of 6), Yoni (1–3 of 4), Vashya (0–1 of 2) and Varna (0 of 1) do not, and Bhakoot on its own accounts for 7 of the guna that go missing.
The pada decides part of this one. 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 18.5 and 24, a swing of 5.5 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 Pushya with Purva Bhadrapada. Varna and Gana are the two directional tests, which is why each name gets a column: Varna differs between them.
| Koota | Pushya bride | Purva Bhadrapada bride | What it reads |
|---|---|---|---|
| Varna / 1 | 0 | 1 | Purva Bhadrapada: Shudra · Pushya: Brahmin |
| Vashya / 2 | 0–1 | 0–1 | Purva Bhadrapada: Manav · Pushya: Jalachar |
| Tara / 3 | 3 | 3 | Counting from Pushya: Ati-Mitra (9) · from Purva Bhadrapada: Sampat (2) |
| Yoni / 4 | 1–3 | 1–3 | Purva Bhadrapada: Lion · Pushya: Sheep |
| Graha Maitri / 5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | Purva Bhadrapada: Saturn · Pushya: Moon |
| Gana / 6 | 5 | 5 | Purva Bhadrapada: Manushya · Pushya: Deva |
| Bhakoot / 7 | 0 | 0 | Aquarius and Cancer — 8/6 |
| Nadi / 8 | 8 | 8 | Purva Bhadrapada: Adi (Vata) · Pushya: Madhya (Pitta) |
| Total / 36 | 17.5–20.5 | 18.5–21.5 | Acceptable |
- Bhakoot, 0 of 7 — Aquarius and Cancer — 8/6. One of the three forbidden distances, and Bhakoot is all or nothing.
- Graha Maitri, 0.5 of 5 — Purva Bhadrapada: Saturn · Pushya: Moon. Five guna ride on how the two sign lords regard each other, more than any other single test.
- Gana, 5 of 6 — Purva Bhadrapada: Manushya · Pushya: Deva. Deva with Manushya, five of six either way round — the mildest of the mixed results.
- Yoni, 1–3 of 4 — Purva Bhadrapada: Lion · Pushya: Sheep. Not the same animal, not a hostile pair, so the graded middle.
- Vashya, 0–1 of 2 — Purva Bhadrapada: Manav · Pushya: Jalachar. Neither the same group nor the agreed zero, so the graded middle where lineages differ.
- Varna, 0 of 1 — Purva Bhadrapada: Shudra · 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 Purva Bhadrapada’s.
All Sixteen Pada Combinations
Pushya runs Cancer 3°20′ – 16°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 120°00′ and 146°40′ apart. Every cell below holds two totals: Pushya as bride first, Purva Bhadrapada as bride second. The cells are not all the same, which is the point of printing them — 17.5 at the lowest and 24 at the highest.
| Pushya ↓ / Purva Bhadrapada → | Pada 1Aquarius | Pada 2Aquarius | Pada 3Aquarius | Pada 4Pisces |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pada 1Cancer | 17.5 / 18.5 | 17.5 / 18.5 | 17.5 / 18.5 | 24 / 24 |
| Pada 2Cancer | 17.5 / 18.5 | 17.5 / 18.5 | 17.5 / 18.5 | 24 / 24 |
| Pada 3Cancer | 17.5 / 18.5 | 17.5 / 18.5 | 17.5 / 18.5 | 24 / 24 |
| Pada 4Cancer | 17.5 / 18.5 | 17.5 / 18.5 | 17.5 / 18.5 | 24 / 24 |
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 Pushya and Purva Bhadrapada rather than guessed at.
Nadi Koota — 8 of 8
Pushya 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 — 0 of 7 at pada 1
In every pada combination, 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. 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 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 Pushya to Purva Bhadrapada is 18. 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: 18 from Pushya and 11 from Purva Bhadrapada, 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), 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: 18.5 of 36 puts Purva Bhadrapada 15th among Pushya's 27 possible partners and Pushya 18th among Purva Bhadrapada's, both on the pada-1 figures those two tables print.
In Pushya’s table
15th of 27
Purva Bhadrapada scores 18.5 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 Purva Bhadrapada’s table
18th of 27
Pushya scores 18.5 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 below the middle of what Purva Bhadrapada 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 Purva Bhadrapada 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 Purva Bhadrapada page.
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Run It On the Real Padas
The grid above narrows Pushya and Purva Bhadrapada to sixteen answers between 18.5 and 24. Two birth times pick one of them.
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