Gana milan — Deva, Manushya, Rakshasa

What this tool computes

Every nakshatra is assigned one of three ganas — Deva, Manushya or Rakshasa — nine stars to each. Gana koota compares the two assignments and awards up to 6 points, the second-largest block in the thirty-six. Matching ganas score in full. Certain mismatches score in part. Others score nothing, and a zero here is what a report means by gana dosha. This tool shows which gana each birth star belongs to, what the pair scores, and how common that outcome is.

The word is a label on a star

Rakshasa gana is a classification of a nakshatra. It is not a description of anybody’s character, and no honest reading of the rule turns it into one. Nine of the twenty-seven stars carry it, which is a third of all births, and the assignment was fixed long before anyone in this conversation was born.

A category that a third of all people are born into is not a finding about any one of them.

The thing most gana calculators leave unsaid

The scoring matrix is not symmetric. A Deva bride with a Rakshasa groom and a Rakshasa bride with a Deva groom are, in the classical tables, not the same case and do not score the same. A calculator that stores the matrix symmetrically will return one number where the tradition returns two, and it will do so without telling you. If two reports on the same couple differ on gana, the direction of the table is the first place to look.

Across all 11,664 ordered pairings of birth star and pada, 33.3% score the full 6 points and 22.2% score nothing. Those are ordered pairings, which is precisely why the asymmetry can be measured at all.

What the result does and does not mean

The result means two birth stars fall into a particular combination of three fixed categories, and that a named tradition assigns that combination a score. Nothing on this page predicts temperament, conduct or the course of a marriage, and nothing here should be read as doing so.

Traditions also record conditions under which a gana mismatch is set aside — commonly when the Moon-sign lords are friends, or when other kootas in the same report prevail. Those are conditions the sources prescribe; we name which fired and where each is stated, and make no claim about what following one achieves.

Our ganas do not match. How much of the score is gone?

At most 6 of thirty-six, and often less, because several mismatches score partially rather than at zero. The tool prints the exact figure for your pair rather than the worst case.

Does swapping who is listed first change anything?

For gana, it can. That is the asymmetry described above, and it is the single most common reason two calculators disagree on this koota. Enter the bride and groom in the roles they actually occupy rather than in the order that happens to be convenient.

Do we need birth times?

Only enough to fix each birth star, which moves roughly once a day. Gana does not depend on the pada, so it is one of the more forgiving kootas when a birth time is remembered rather than recorded.