Accuracy first — every position comes from DE440, NASA JPL's most precise planetary ephemeris.
Accuracy first — every position comes from DE440, NASA JPL's most precise planetary ephemeris.
Ashtakoot Milan scores eight factors out of thirty-six, from two birth charts. The total is the part everyone quotes; the part that decides anything is which factors earned their points and which had a dosha cancelled.
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Ashtakoot Milan reads two birth charts against each other across eight factors, called kootas, and awards each a fixed number of points out of thirty-six. Almost all of it rests on one thing: where the Moon sat in each chart at birth, which fixes the rasi and the nakshatra every koota is then counted from. That is worth knowing early, because it explains both what the method is good at and what it cannot see. Two people can match well on every koota and still have charts that differ in every other respect.
Each person needs a date, a time and a place of birth. The place matters as much as the clock: the coordinates decide which timezone the birth time is read in, so a city chosen carelessly moves the chart rather than just the map. Enter both sets of details and the result appears on the page — a total, the eight kootas scored individually, and any cancellation that applied, with the classical rule behind it. Nothing is held back behind a sign-up, and no email is asked for before a result.
Ashtakoot reads eight factors and gives each a different weight, one point through eight, summing to thirty-six. The table below names all eight. What matters when reading a result is that the weights are uneven: Nadi alone is worth more than Varna, Vashya, Tara and Yoni together, so two couples on the same total can be in quite different positions.
The order is fixed and so are the points. Each is counted from the Moon's rasi or nakshatra in the two charts, which is why one wrong birth time can move several rows at once rather than just one. The wording in the last column is the same wording the calculator uses on your own result.
| Koota | Points | What it is read for |
|---|---|---|
| Varna | 1 | Social compatibility |
| Vashya | 2 | Mutual control |
| Tara | 3 | General well-being |
| Yoni | 4 | Sexual compatibility |
| Graha Maitri | 5 | Mental compatibility |
| Gana | 6 | Temperament compatibility |
| Bhakoot | 7 | Family & prosperity |
| Nadi | 8 | Health & progeny |
| Total | 36 |
Eighteen out of thirty-six is the figure most often repeated as a threshold, with higher bands described as good and very good above it. Those bands are a convention that circulated and stuck, not a rule any classical text sets, and the table beside the score is more informative than the band it falls in. A pair at twenty-four with Nadi and Bhakoot both intact is in a different position from a pair at twenty-four that lost both — the same number, two different readings.
A koota can score nothing because the two charts genuinely do not agree, or because a dosha was raised and then cancelled by a classical exemption. Those are different situations and the table keeps them apart: every row is marked passed, cancelled or active. A cancelled dosha means the objection was considered and set aside for a stated reason, which you can open and read. The total cannot tell you which happened — that is the one thing a single number is incapable of carrying.
It is not part of the thirty-six. Mars is checked for each person twice — from the Moon and in the Lagna chart — and then for the couple together, because one partner's dosha can be answered by the other's. Exemptions apply here too, so “Manglik” on its own is not a conclusion. This page shows which of the checks fired and whether anything cancelled it.
Nadi and Bhakoot carry the two heaviest weights and the longest lists of classical exceptions, and each has a page of its own rather than a summary here: the Nadi Dosha page sets out what the dosha is and checks a real pair against the exceptions, and the Bhakoot page carries the rules with a chakra covering the sign pairs. Both are linked from the tools list. Repeating them here would put three pages of ours in competition for the same question.
Ashtakoot is one classical method, and eighteen out of thirty-six is the threshold most often quoted for it. Treat that as a convention rather than a verdict: practitioners weigh Nadi and Bhakoot far more heavily than their share of the points suggests, and a high total with Nadi at zero is not the same proposition as the same total earned evenly. The score is a starting point for a conversation with somebody who reads charts, not a substitute for one.
Matching asks whether two charts agree. It says nothing about when to do anything — that is counted from a birth star and from the day itself, and it changes every few days. If you have the match and now need the date, the questions beside this page are the ones that answer it.