Chakras · Matching
Ashtakoota guna milan, the 36-point match used in North Indian panchang practice. It compares the two Moon nakshatras — varna, vashya, tara, yoni, graha maitri, gana, bhakoot, and nadi — and adds them to a total out of 36.
This is a traditional Vedic astrology practice, a cultural way of reading a proposed match. It is not a scientific prediction of a marriage. The figures are computed in this browser. Nothing is sent anywhere, and nothing is stored unless you tick Remember.
The eight weights are the standard North Indian set: Varna 1, Vashya 2, Tara 3, Yoni 4, Graha Maitri 5, Gana 6, Bhakoot 7, Nadi 8. The bands on this page are under 18 not recommended, 18–24 average, 25–32 good, 33–36 excellent. The floor of 18 is the figure repeated from Rāma Daivajña’s Muhūrta Cintāmaṇi. The four bands are the scale printed in contemporary North Indian panchangs and in the line of B. V. Raman’s Muhurtha. Some writers start “good” at 24 rather than 25; the bands here do not overlap.
Varna follows the triplicity used by most North Indian software: water signs Brahmin, fire Kshatriya, earth Vaishya, air Shudra. The point is given when the groom’s rank is the same or higher. Raman’s list differs (Libra as Kshatriya, Aries, Gemini, and Aquarius as Vaishya, Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn as Shudra). That list is not used for the score.
Vashya keeps the classical half-signs. Sagittarius is human in the first 15° and quadruped after. Capricorn is quadruped in the first 15° and aquatic after. Leo is wild, Scorpio is insect. The groom’s class is the row and the bride’s is the column: 2 for the same class, 1 for most mixes, 0.5 for human with aquatic, and 0 when the groom is wild and the bride is anything else. A water-sign groom with a Leo bride scores 1. An older table gives 1.5 for some of those mixes, including quadruped with wild in one direction. That older table is not used for the score. Purva Ashadha pada 1 and Shravana pada 2 cross the 15° line, so a nakshatra entered without a degree is scored on the second half and the other total is shown beside it.
Tara is counted both ways, bride to groom and groom to bride, including the starting nakshatra. Divide the count by 9. Auspicious remainders are 1 (Janma), 2 (Sampat), 4 (Kshema), 6 (Sadhana), 8 (Mitra), and 0 or 9 (Ati Mitra). Inauspicious remainders are 3 (Vipat), 5 (Pratyak), and 7 (Vadha). Both directions auspicious scores 3; one scores 1.5. The same nakshatra is Janma both ways, so the diagonal of the usual 27×27 table is 3. With these remainders the two directions are never both inauspicious, so that table has no 0. A Janma-tara variant treats remainder 1 as inauspicious and scores the diagonal 0; some electional notes do the same, and an even/odd shortcut (odd remainders bad) does too. That variant is not used for the score. Some manuals count only from the bride’s nakshatra and allow only 0 or 3.
Yoni uses the 14-animal matrix with the groom’s animal as the row and the bride’s as the column, including the seven enemy pairs at 0 (horse/buffalo, elephant/lion, sheep/monkey, serpent/mongoose, dog/deer, cat/rat, cow/tiger). A few cells are not symmetric. The male or female label of the yoni is shown and does not change the points. Some remarks treat two male yonies as quarrelsome; that remark is not subtracted.
Graha Maitri uses natural friendship from Bṛhat Parāśara Horā Śāstra, not temporary friendship from the chart. Same lord or mutual friends score 5, friend and neutral 4, both neutral 3, friend and enemy 1, neutral and enemy 0.5, mutual enemies 0.
Gana gives 6 for the same group, 6 for a deva groom with a manushya bride, 5 for a manushya groom with a deva bride, 1 for a deva groom with a rakshasa bride, and 0 for the other deva/rakshasa and manushya/rakshasa pairs. Some tables give 0 for every deva–rakshasa pair, and some give 5 rather than 6 for deva groom with manushya bride.
Bhakoot scores 0 for sign distances 2/12, 5/9, and 6/8 in either order, and 7 otherwise. An older directional reading treats only some of those directions as harmful. Nadi scores 0 when the nadi is the same and 8 otherwise.
When Nadi or Bhakoot is zero, the page lists the common exceptions — same Moon sign with different nakshatras, same nakshatra with different padas, and Moon-sign lords that are the same planet or mutual friends — and does not add those points back. Rajju and Vedha are outside the 36 and are not scored.
Manglik checks Mars in houses 1, 2, 4, 7, 8, and 12 from the sidereal ascendant and from the Moon. Venus is shown the same way and is not required for the common flag. The mutual rule used here is the popular one: if both people are Manglik by the Lagna-or-Moon reading, the dosha is treated as cancelled for the match. Classical sign-and-house exceptions are named when they apply and do not clear the house.
The Moon’s tropical longitude is Astronomy Engine 2.1.19 (Don Cross, MIT), the Brown lunar series via Montenbruck and Pfleger. Mars and Venus are geocentric apparent positions from the same library. Lahiri ayanamsa is computed for the date: the Indian Astronomical Ephemeris / Swiss Ephemeris Chitrapaksha anchor at 1956 March 21 (mean 23°15′00.658″ with epoch nutation removed), IAU 2006 precession, and IAU 2000B nutation. It is not a fixed offset. Civil time uses the IANA zone, including historical Asia/Kolkata offsets. City coordinates are GeoNames (CC-BY 4.0): world cities of 150,000 and above, and Indian cities of 15,000 and above.