Ashtakoot Guna Milan · Pair
Pushya and Uttara Ashadha nakshatra matching
19.5–22.5 of 36 with Pushya as bride, 20.5–23.5 with Uttara Ashadha as bride — then computed again for all sixteen pada combinations.
Pushya: Madhya (Pitta) nadi · Sheep yoni · Deva gana | Uttara Ashadha: Antya (Kapha) nadi · Mongoose yoni · Manushya gana
Pushya as bride
19.5–22.5
of 36
Uttara Ashadha as bride
20.5–23.5
of 36
Across all padas
20.5–24
spread of 3.5
Pushya and Uttara Ashadha come to 19.5–22.5 of 36 with Pushya on the bride's side and 20.5–23.5 with Uttara Ashadha on it. What sits behind those two figures: Nadi scores in full, while Bhakoot (0 of 7), Tara (1.5 of 3), Gana (5 of 6), Graha Maitri (4 of 5), 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.
Two birth stars are not enough for this pair. Uttara Ashadha runs from Sagittarius into Capricorn after pada 1, 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 — so the total follows, anywhere from 20.5 to 24 of 36 depending on the padas. At 3.5 guna the swing sits above the median of 2, in a range reaching 14 at its widest.
Koota by Koota
Pada 1 on each side, and what every koota is reading for Pushya with Uttara Ashadha. Varna and Gana are the two directional tests, which is why each name gets a column: Varna differs between them.
| Koota | Pushya bride | Uttara Ashadha bride | What it reads |
|---|---|---|---|
| Varna / 1 | 0 | 1 | Uttara Ashadha: Kshatriya · Pushya: Brahmin |
| Vashya / 2 | 0–1 | 0–1 | Uttara Ashadha: Chatushpada · Pushya: Jalachar |
| Tara / 3 | 1.5 | 1.5 | Counting from Pushya: Pratyari (5) · from Uttara Ashadha: Sadhaka (6) |
| Yoni / 4 | 1–3 | 1–3 | Uttara Ashadha: Mongoose · Pushya: Sheep |
| Graha Maitri / 5 | 4 | 4 | Uttara Ashadha: Jupiter · Pushya: Moon |
| Gana / 6 | 5 | 5 | Uttara Ashadha: Manushya · Pushya: Deva |
| Bhakoot / 7 | 0 | 0 | Sagittarius and Cancer — 6/8 |
| Nadi / 8 | 8 | 8 | Uttara Ashadha: Antya (Kapha) · Pushya: Madhya (Pitta) |
| Total / 36 | 19.5–22.5 | 20.5–23.5 | Acceptable |
- Bhakoot, 0 of 7 — Sagittarius and Cancer — 6/8. One of the three forbidden distances, and Bhakoot is all or nothing.
- Tara, 1.5 of 3 — Counting from Pushya: Pratyari (5) · from Uttara Ashadha: Sadhaka (6). One count of the two is inauspicious and the other is not, which halves the koota.
- Gana, 5 of 6 — Uttara Ashadha: Manushya · Pushya: Deva. Deva with Manushya, five of six either way round — the mildest of the mixed results.
- Graha Maitri, 4 of 5 — Uttara Ashadha: Jupiter · Pushya: Moon. Five guna ride on how the two sign lords regard each other, more than any other single test.
- Yoni, 1–3 of 4 — Uttara Ashadha: Mongoose · Pushya: Sheep. Not the same animal, not a hostile pair, so the graded middle.
- Vashya, 0–1 of 2 — Uttara Ashadha: Chatushpada · Pushya: Jalachar. Neither the same group nor the agreed zero, so the graded middle where lineages differ.
- Varna, 0 of 1 — Uttara Ashadha: Kshatriya · 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 Uttara Ashadha’s.
All Sixteen Pada Combinations
Pushya runs Cancer 3°20′ – 16°40′ and Uttara Ashadha runs Sagittarius 26°40′ – Capricorn 10°00′ — two arcs 13°20′ wide, each divided into four padas of 3°20′, which puts the two Moons anywhere between 160°00′ and 180°00′ apart. Every cell below holds two totals: Pushya as bride first, Uttara Ashadha as bride second. The cells are not all the same, which is the point of printing them — 19.5 at the lowest and 24 at the highest.
| Pushya ↓ / Uttara Ashadha → | Pada 1Sagittarius | Pada 2Capricorn | Pada 3Capricorn | Pada 4Capricorn |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pada 1Cancer | 19.5 / 20.5 | 23 / 24 | 23 / 24 | 23 / 24 |
| Pada 2Cancer | 19.5 / 20.5 | 23 / 24 | 23 / 24 | 23 / 24 |
| Pada 3Cancer | 19.5 / 20.5 | 23 / 24 | 23 / 24 | 23 / 24 |
| Pada 4Cancer | 19.5 / 20.5 | 23 / 24 | 23 / 24 | 23 / 24 |
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
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 Uttara Ashadha 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 — 0 of 7 at pada 1
In 4 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 Jupiter, 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 Uttara Ashadha 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 Uttara Ashadha is 14. 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: 14 from Pushya and 15 from Uttara Ashadha, 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), Uttara Ashadha is Dhruva / Sthira (fixed) — 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: 20.5 of 36 puts Uttara Ashadha 12th among Pushya's 27 possible partners and Pushya 16th among Uttara Ashadha's, both on the pada-1 figures those two tables print.
In Pushya’s table
12th of 27
Uttara Ashadha scores 20.5 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 Uttara Ashadha’s table
16th of 27
Pushya scores 20.5 there, level with 1 other partner. Uttara Ashadha’s 27 partners run from 9.5 to 31 with a median of 22, so this one sits below the middle of what Uttara Ashadha 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 Uttara Ashadha 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 Uttara Ashadha page.
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Run It On the Real Padas
The grid above narrows Pushya and Uttara Ashadha to sixteen answers between 20.5 and 24. Two birth times pick one of them.
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