Ashtakoot Guna Milan · Pair
Uttara Phalguni and Chitra nakshatra matching
13.5 of 36 with Uttara Phalguni as bride, 17.5 with Chitra as bride — then computed again for all sixteen pada combinations.
Uttara Phalguni: Adi (Vata) nadi · Cow yoni · Manushya gana | Chitra: Madhya (Pitta) nadi · Tiger yoni · Rakshasa gana
Uttara Phalguni as bride
13.5
of 36
Chitra as bride
17.5
of 36
Across all padas
17.5–27.5
spread of 10
Four of the eight kootas — Tara, Yoni, Gana and Nadi — are settled by the two birth stars alone, before anyone asks about a pada; the other four are read from the Moon rashi, which a pada can move. For Uttara Phalguni with Chitra that leaves 1 of the eight at full marks — Nadi — and 7 carrying a deduction: Bhakoot (0 of 7), Gana (0 of 6), Yoni (0 of 4), Vashya (0 of 2), Tara (1.5 of 3), Graha Maitri (4 of 5) and Varna (0 of 1). The heaviest of them is Bhakoot, where Virgo and Leo — 2/12 gives 0 of 7.
A swing of 10 guna separates the best and worst cells in the grid below — 17.5 at the bottom, 27.5 at the top. The cause is a boundary inside the four padas: Uttara Phalguni runs from Leo into Virgo after pada 1 and Chitra runs from Virgo into Libra 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
All eight kootas for Uttara Phalguni and Chitra, taken at pada 1 each. Two columns because Varna and Gana can score differently by direction where the other six cannot: Varna and Gana differ between them.
| Koota | Uttara Phalguni bride | Chitra bride | What it reads |
|---|---|---|---|
| Varna / 1 | 0 | 1 | Chitra: Vaishya · Uttara Phalguni: Kshatriya |
| Vashya / 2 | 0 | 0 | Chitra: Manav · Uttara Phalguni: Vanachar |
| Tara / 3 | 1.5 | 1.5 | Counting from Uttara Phalguni: Vipat (3) · from Chitra: Mitra (8) |
| Yoni / 4 | 0 | 0 | Chitra: Tiger · Uttara Phalguni: Cow |
| Graha Maitri / 5 | 4 | 4 | Chitra: Mercury · Uttara Phalguni: Sun |
| Gana / 6 | 0 | 3 | Chitra: Rakshasa · Uttara Phalguni: Manushya |
| Bhakoot / 7 | 0 | 0 | Virgo and Leo — 2/12 |
| Nadi / 8 | 8 | 8 | Chitra: Madhya (Pitta) · Uttara Phalguni: Adi (Vata) |
| Total / 36 | 13.5 | 17.5 | Below the conventional threshold |
- Bhakoot, 0 of 7 — Virgo and Leo — 2/12. A forbidden rashi distance, so all seven guna go at once.
- Gana, 0 of 6 — Chitra: Rakshasa · Uttara Phalguni: Manushya. The gentle temperament is held to bear the cost of the forceful one unevenly.
- Yoni, 0 of 4 — Chitra: Tiger · Uttara Phalguni: Cow. One of the seven hostile pairs, and the largest deduction a single koota can produce.
- Vashya, 0 of 2 — Chitra: Manav · Uttara Phalguni: Vanachar. The one combination every published table scores at nothing.
- Tara, 1.5 of 3 — Counting from Uttara Phalguni: Vipat (3) · from Chitra: Mitra (8). Half the koota, because the count is unfavourable in one direction only.
- Graha Maitri, 4 of 5 — Chitra: Mercury · Uttara Phalguni: Sun. The mental-compatibility koota, and the sign lords fall short of friendship.
- Varna, 0 of 1 — Chitra: Vaishya · Uttara Phalguni: Kshatriya. A deliberately one-way test on rank, failed in this direction. It is one point of thirty-six.
Half-guna figures are exact rather than rounded. Each koota’s rule is set out in full on Uttara Phalguni’s table and Chitra’s.
All Sixteen Pada Combinations
Uttara Phalguni runs Leo 26°40′ – Virgo 10°00′ and Chitra runs Virgo 23°20′ – Libra 6°40′ — two arcs 13°20′ wide, each divided into four padas of 3°20′, which puts the two Moons anywhere between 13°20′ and 40°00′ apart. Every cell below holds two totals: Uttara Phalguni as bride first, Chitra as bride second. The cells are not all the same, which is the point of printing them — 13.5 at the lowest and 27.5 at the highest.
| Uttara Phalguni ↓ / Chitra → | Pada 1Virgo | Pada 2Virgo | Pada 3Libra | Pada 4Libra |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pada 1Leo | 13.5 / 17.5 | 13.5 / 17.5 | 16.5 / 20.5 | 16.5 / 20.5 |
| Pada 2Virgo | 24.5 / 27.5 | 24.5 / 27.5 | 16.5 / 20.5 | 16.5 / 20.5 |
| Pada 3Virgo | 24.5 / 27.5 | 24.5 / 27.5 | 16.5 / 20.5 | 16.5 / 20.5 |
| Pada 4Virgo | 24.5 / 27.5 | 24.5 / 27.5 | 16.5 / 20.5 | 16.5 / 20.5 |
Strict reading of the two disputed kootas throughout. Yoni and Vashya are undisputed for these two stars, so every figure is exact rather than a low end. 14 of the sixteen clear the conventional threshold of 18; the other 2 do not. 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 — 8 of 8
Uttara Phalguni is Adi (Vata) and Chitra is Madhya (Pitta). 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 8 of the sixteen pada combinations, the two Moon signs stand at one of the three forbidden distances and Bhakoot gives nothing. 6 of those 8 cells carry the cancellation and the rest do not, so the pada decides not just the score but whether the relief clause is available.
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
Two tests the eight kootas leave out, both settled by the distance between the two stars: Uttara Phalguni to Chitra is 3 and back is 26, counting inclusively.
- Mahendra — absent. 3 stars between them, against a favourable set of 4, 7, 10, 13, 16, 19, 22 and 25. 108 of the 351 pairs land on one of those.
- Stri-Dirgha — satisfied one way. The count from the bride's star should pass nine — 3 with Uttara Phalguni as bride, 26 with Chitra — and 135 pairs clear it both ways against 216 that clear it one way. It holds with Chitra as the bride and not with Uttara Phalguni.
Neither test touches the 36. Muhurta nature is a different question again — Uttara Phalguni is Dhruva / Sthira (fixed), Chitra is Mridu (tender) — and it governs what each star suits doing, not who it marries.
How the Pair Ranks on Each Side
The same 17.5 of 36 reads differently from each side, because each star is being compared with a different 27: 20th place in Uttara Phalguni's table, 18th in Chitra's. Both positions can be checked by counting rows there — the figures are the ones those tables print.
In Uttara Phalguni’s table
20th of 27
Chitra scores 17.5 there, level with 1 other partner. Uttara Phalguni’s 27 partners run from 11.5 to 33 with a median of 21, so this one sits below the middle of what Uttara Phalguni can reach — all 27 rows.
In Chitra’s table
18th of 27
Uttara Phalguni scores 17.5 there outright. Chitra’s 27 partners run from 7 to 29 with a median of 20, so this one sits below the middle of what Chitra can reach — all 27 rows.
What This Total Is Not
One number cannot carry a marriage. Ashtakoot reads a single point from each chart — the Moon — so two people born hours apart with the Moon in Uttara Phalguni score identically here whatever else their charts do. The seventh house and its lord, Venus, Mars and Mangal dosha, and the dasha each partner is running are all outside it, and any of them can matter more than the difference between below the conventional threshold and the band above.
Written rather than computed, and worth the longer read: the Kundli Milan guide written from these numbers and the guide to all 27 birth stars. The full profiles of the two stars — deities, symbols, temperament, the syllables used for naming — are on the Uttara Phalguni page and the Chitra page.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Run It On the Real Padas
The grid above narrows Uttara Phalguni and Chitra to sixteen answers between 17.5 and 27.5. Two birth times pick one of them.
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