Guna Milan · Population context
11 out of 36
What this score means against every possible nakshatra-pada pairing, and which kootas most often fall short here.
94.6% reach 11 or better
11 is below the average score of 20.1.
Measured over every one of the 11,664 possible nakshatra-pada pairings — the whole population, not a sample. 4.1% of them land exactly here.
The total you were handed is 11. It sits well below the mark most families treat as a pass, and nothing on this page will argue it into a better one. Across every pairing that can exist, 94.6% reach this total or better.
What can be added is the arithmetic underneath it: how many charts land exactly here, which of the eight tests produced the zeroes, and which questions a total like this leaves open. Some of that is narrower than it was described to you. Some of it is not.
How many pairings land here
There are 11664 ordered pairings of nakshatra and pada. That is every match that can exist, counted rather than sampled. Of those, 475 score exactly what you were given — 4.1% of the whole. The mean total across all of them is 20.1.
4.1% of all pairings land exactly here, and 94.6% reach this total or better. That is the position, stated exactly. It is also the last thing the total by itself can tell you.
Which tests scored nothing
The eight kootas are not eight equal tests. A few carry most of the points and pay all or nothing; the rest are small and usually satisfied. A total this low is therefore the loss of a few large blocks, not eight separate things going wrong. Among the pairings that score exactly this total, the test most often at zero is Nadi.
A low total is a small number of large blocks lost, and which blocks they are changes what the number can be read to mean.
- Nadi — a three-fold constitutional grouping assigned by nakshatra, which pays nothing when both charts fall in the same one. Zero for 94.9% of pairings at this total.
- Vashya — which of five rashi groups is held to exert influence over which. Zero for 90.7% of pairings at this total.
- Varna — a four-fold grouping taken from the moon sign, scored on which group ranks above which. Zero for 53.3% of pairings at this total.
- Gana — temperament, sorted into deva, manushya and rakshasa by birth star. Zero for 53.3% of pairings at this total.
This is why two charts with the same total are not the same chart. The number hides which blocks went, and every tradition that reads these scores reads the blocks, not the sum. An assessment that gave you a total and no breakdown withheld the part that carries the meaning.
These percentages describe the pairings that share your total. They say how the loss is usually distributed at this score, not what any particular pair of charts contains. Your own breakdown may sit outside the common pattern.
What a low total does not settle
Ashtakoota is one system of eight tests, and the number you hold is that system’s answer. It is not the only one in use. The Dashakoota practice followed across much of South India counts ten kootas, adds rajju, vedha, mahendra and stree-deergha, and weights the shared ones differently, so it reaches its own conclusion from the same two charts. Nor does an Ashtakoota total touch the manglik question, which is judged from the house Mars occupies rather than from the birth stars, and which the documented schools disagree about among themselves.
The Ashtakoota tables themselves are not single either. Several kootas are scored by more than one published convention — the direction the tara count is taken in, which graha maitri table is used, which varna table a source prints. Each convention is traceable to a named tradition, and a total on its own does not record which one was applied.
None of that turns a low total into a high one. It means the total is one tradition’s reading, produced under a set of choices that were probably never disclosed to you.
What can actually be checked
The birth time. Every star-based koota depends on the moon’s nakshatra and pada, and the moon changes pada through the course of a day. A birth time recorded to the nearest hour, or remembered rather than documented, can put a chart in the neighbouring pada. That moves the star, and the star is the input to most of the tests above.
Which tradition was used. Ask for it by name. An astrologer working from a particular lineage or a particular published panchanga can usually say so straight away, and it is a fair question rather than a challenge.
The comparison across traditions. The same two charts can be scored under each documented convention side by side, koota by koota, with the differences shown. That does not promise a different number. It tells you whether the one you were given is the only number your charts produce.
What most often falls short at 11
Among the 475 pairings that land on this score, how often each koota scored nothing at all.
| Koota | Scores zero |
|---|---|
| Nadi | 94.9% |
| Vashya | 90.7% |
| Varna | 53.3% |
| Gana | 53.3% |
This is the arithmetic. It is the same for everyone.
Whether a classical cancellation applies to your two charts is a different question, and it needs both of them. The free calculator scores your actual pairing under five traditions at once.
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