Rajju dosha — outside the northern eight kootas

What this tool computes

Rajju sorts the twenty-seven nakshatras into five groups named for parts of the body: foot, waist, navel, neck and head. Every nakshatra belongs to exactly one. The test is a single comparison — if both birth stars fall in the same group, the traditions that use rajju raise rajju dosha; if they fall in different groups, they do not. This tool prints which group each of the two stars sits in, whether they coincide, and how each of the documented schools treats that finding. No birth time, no planets, no degrees.

The thing most reports never say

Rajju is not a low score in the North Indian system. It is not in that system at all. The thirty-six-point Ashtakoota has eight components — varna, vashya, tara, yoni, graha maitri, gana, bhakoot and nadi — and rajju is not one of them. We scored every one of the 11,664 ordered nakshatra-pada pairings to be certain of the shape of it: a mean total of 20.1 out of thirty-six, with 66.7% clearing the eighteen-point line. Not one of those totals contains a rajju term.

A North Indian report does not overlook rajju. It computes a score in which rajju has never been a term.

What the result does and does not mean

A same-group result tells you that two nakshatras share a category in a fixed table of five. It does not tell you what will happen to a marriage, and we do not make predictions of that kind. What it does tell you is which conversation you are in. In Tamil and Kerala practice rajju is often treated as a blocking condition rather than as points to be traded; in most North Indian practice there is nothing to block. Across five documented schools, 56.4% of enumerated pairings trigger a tested difference or veto. This combines several checks, not only Rajju disagreement.

Our Delhi report never mentioned rajju. Was it wrong?

No. Every Ashtakoota score in existence is computed without consulting rajju, including the ones that clear the pass mark comfortably. The two readings are scoring different systems, and neither becomes inaccurate because the other exists.

We fall in the same group. Is that the end of it?

Not automatically, and this is where the schools part company. B.V. Raman and two panchangas hold that rajju need not be considered when Graha Maitri, Rasi, Dina and Mahendra are all present; one panchanga makes the navel group an exception to that exception; one widely used calculator omits rajju entirely; another folds it into a total as zero points instead of treating it as a veto. Four schools, four different views of what kind of object rajju is.

What should we ask the astrologer who raised it?

Three questions with short factual answers. Which group each nakshatra falls in. Whether the four-kuta exception was checked, and what each of those four returned. And whether this reading treats rajju as a veto or as points, since those two produce incompatible outputs and the choice is a decision rather than a calculation.