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In short
Guna milan, also called Ashtakoot matching, compares two birth charts through eight factors called kootas and adds their points to a score out of 36. Every koota is read from the two Moon signs or the two Moon nakshatras. None of the classical texts this app reads contains the rules, so the engine follows published references where they agree.
What the term means
Guna milan is the matching of gunas, the points a marriage match is counted in; the engine's notes describe it as the system used across North India for marriage matching. It has eight kootas, each worth a fixed maximum from 1 to 8 points, summed to a total out of 36. Four kootas read the two Moon signs and four read the two Moon nakshatras. Nothing else in either chart enters the score.
Where the term comes from
The texts in this app's library are silent on it. A search of BPHS, Saravali, the Bhrigu Sutras, Daivajna Vallabha and Advanced Predictive Astrology finds no Ashtakoot rules; the only "Koota" in Saravali is a chart-shape yoga. The project's rules document records this and the owner's decision: the engine follows published references, adopts a rule only where independent references agree, and keeps its previous behaviour where they disagree.
How this app computes it
- The eight kootas and their maxima: Varna 1, Vashya 2, Tara 3, Yoni 4, Graha Maitri 5, Gana 6, Bhakoot 7, Nadi 8.
- Varna, Vashya, Graha Maitri and Bhakoot read the Moon signs; Tara, Yoni, Gana and Nadi read the Moon nakshatras.
- A marriage match scores all eight out of 36. Business and friendship matches score four (Graha Maitri, Gana, Tara, Bhakoot), out of 21.
- The total is placed in a band (strong, workable, mixed or challenging) at 75, 55 and 35 percent, and Mulank and Bhagyank harmony from both birth dates is shown beside it.
- Without a birth time, any koota whose input changed during that birth day is named, with the points riding on it, instead of the whole score being hedged.
A small illustration
A Moon at 1 degree of Aries (Ashwini) against one at 1 degree of Leo (Magha) scores Varna 1, Vashya 1, Tara 3, Yoni 2, Graha Maitri 5, Gana 0, Bhakoot 0 and Nadi 8: 20 of 36. The project's sweep of all 11,664 ordered pairs of the 108 nakshatra quarters gives a mean of 21.07, a minimum of 4 and a maximum of 34.5, which puts any one score in context.
Pages that use this term
- Kundli matching calculator - the 36-point score for two birth dates.
- Love compatibility calculator - the same engine with a different framing.
- Compatibility - the fuller two-chart reading.
- Aries and Leo Moon sign compatibility - every koota for one pair of signs.
- Moon sign and nakshatra - the two inputs every koota reads.
Related terms
Nadi koota, Bhakoot koota, Gana koota, Graha Maitri koota, Manglik and Janma Nakshatra.
Kundli Matching (Guna Milan)
The classical Ashtakoot score out of 36, computed from two birth dates.
This one has its own page
This one runs on its own page, built for it, where the full result is laid out properly. No account is needed there either.