Kundli Matching · कुंडली मिलान
Compare two birth charts the traditional way: the eight kootas of Guna Milan, scored out of 36 from each partner’s Moon.
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Enter both sets of birth details. Stella works out each Moon’s sign and nakshatra and scores the eight kootas of Guna Milan, out of 36.
Ashtakoota (Guna Milan), from each partner’s Moon: sidereal, True Chitrapaksha ayanamsa, the settings of Jagannatha Hora. The koota tables match ProKerala’s on all 60 test pairs, point for point. Traditional exceptions are named beside the score, never added to it.
Start here
Kundli Matching (Kundli Milan) is the traditional comparison of two birth charts before a marriage. In most Indian families it begins with Guna Milan, the method called Ashtakoota: eight tests, the kootas, which compare the Moon of one partner with the Moon of the other.
Each koota is worth a fixed number of points, from 1 for Varna to 8 for Nadi, for 36 points in all. The total is the Guna Milan score. Tradition treats 18 as the minimum for a match to be considered, and looks closely at two doshas, Nadi and Bhakoot, whatever the total.
Guna Milan is a starting point, not a verdict. It compares only the two Moons, the mind and the emotions in Jyotisha. An astrologer also reads both full charts: the seventh house of marriage, Venus, Jupiter, the Manglik placement and the periods each person is running.
The eight tests
Each koota looks at a different side of a partnership, and each is worked out from the Moon sign or the Moon nakshatra of each partner. These are the rules Stella’s calculator applies.
The Moon signs fall into four varnas: Brahmin (Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces), Kshatriya (Aries, Leo, Sagittarius), Vaishya (Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn) and Shudra (Gemini, Libra, Aquarius). Tradition reads Varna for outlook and temperament, and gives the point when the groom’s varna ranks at or above the bride’s.
Vashya means influence: how naturally one partner draws the other. The signs form five groups: quadruped, human, water-dwelling, wild (Leo) and insect (Scorpio), with Sagittarius and Capricorn split at 15°. Partners in the same group score 2; a predator and its prey, such as the lion and a quadruped, score 0.
Tara counts the nakshatras from the bride’s birth star to the groom’s, and from his to hers. Each count, divided by nine, lands on one of nine taras; the third, fifth and seventh (Vipat, Pratyak and Naidhana) are unfavourable. Each favourable direction earns 1½ points.
Each nakshatra has an animal, its yoni: fourteen in all, from the horse and the elephant to the mongoose and the lion. The same animal scores 4, friendly animals 3, neutral 2 and unfriendly 1. The seven pairs of sworn enemies, such as the cat and the rat or the cow and the tiger, score 0.
The lords of the two Moon signs are compared by their natural friendship, as Parashara gives it: the Sun is a friend of the Moon, Mars and Jupiter, for example, and Saturn of Mercury and Venus. The same lord, or two lords who are friends, score 5; two lords who are enemies score 0. It is read for mental compatibility and friendship.
The nakshatras fall into three ganas of nine: Deva (divine), Manushya (human) and Rakshasa (fierce and independent, not evil). The same gana scores 6, as does a Deva groom with a Manushya bride; the reverse scores 5. A Rakshasa with a Manushya partner scores 0.
Bhakoot counts how far apart the two Moon signs are. Signs 1/1, 3/11, 4/10 or 7/7 apart score 7. Signs 2/12, 5/9 or 6/8 apart score 0: this is Bhakoot dosha, traditionally linked with family welfare, finances and the couple’s growth together.
The nakshatras cycle through three nadis: Adi (Vata), Madhya (Pitta) and Antya (Kapha). Different nadis score all 8 points. The same nadi scores 0: this is Nadi dosha, the one families take most seriously, traditionally linked with health and with children.
What families look for
Three doshas are weighed alongside the score. Stella shows each one, and names any traditional exception that applies beside the score, but never adds it to the score: which exceptions count, and how much, is for your astrologer.
Nadi dosha: both Moons in the same nadi. Tradition often sets it aside when both Moons are in the same sign but different nakshatras, in the same nakshatra but different signs, or in the same nakshatra but different padas.
Bhakoot dosha: the Moon signs 2/12, 5/9 or 6/8 apart. Tradition often sets it aside when the two signs share a lord, or their lords are friends of each other.
Manglik: Mars in the 1st, 4th, 7th, 8th or 12th house from the Lagna, the Moon or Venus. Stella shows each partner’s placement; tradition often considers two Manglik charts to balance each other.
Your result
The traditional reading of the 36-point total:
33 to 36: excellent, the highest band.
25 to 32½: very good.
18 to 24½: acceptable: at or above the traditional minimum.
Below 18: under the traditional minimum; most families would ask an astrologer to read both charts in full.
Many astrologers look at Nadi and Bhakoot before the total: a high score with Nadi dosha is often read more cautiously than a lower score without it.
Beyond the score
A marriage is more than two Moons. In a consultation an astrologer can also look at:
The seventh house: the house of partnership in each chart, its sign, its lord and the planets in it.
Venus and Jupiter: the significators of marriage, and their strength in each chart.
The dashas: the periods each person is running, and the timing of the marriage.
Your own questions: values, family, work and hopes: the things no chart can decide for you.
Kundli Matching describes compatibility within a tradition. It does not decide a marriage, and no score guarantees happiness or foretells difficulty.
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