1 of 36 marks
Varna Koota: 1 of 36 Points in Kundli Matching
Varna Koota weighs whether the two temperaments can work together. Worth 1 marks, and 37% of the 729 nakshatra pairings score zero on it.
Varna Koota is the 1st of the eight kootas in Ashtakoot Guna Milan and carries 1 of the thirty-six marks. It weighs whether the two temperaments can work together. Of the 729 possible pairings of the twenty-seven nakshatras, 270 score zero on it — 37%. It has no classical cancellation.
What this koota measures
This koota weighs whether the two temperaments can work together. That judgement is worth 1 of the thirty-six marks.
The full scoring table
| Kshatriya | Vaishya | Shudra | Brahmin | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kshatriya | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Vaishya | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Shudra | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Brahmin | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Row is the groom, column is the bride. This koota's table is asymmetric, so the order matters.
How often it scores what
| 1 / 1 | 459 pairings | 63% |
| 0 / 1 | 270 pairings | 37% |
Across all 729 pairings of the twenty-seven nakshatras — computed, not quoted.
When it scores full marks
Both fall in workable varnas — Kshatriya and Kshatriya.
When it scores zero
The bride's varna (Brahmin) ranks above the groom's (Kshatriya), which this koota scores zero. It is the lightest of the eight and is routinely set aside.
The pairings that score zero
- KshatriyaBrahmin
- VaishyaKshatriya
- VaishyaBrahmin
- ShudraKshatriya
- ShudraVaishya
- ShudraBrahmin
Pulled out of the grid, because this is the row anybody reading a match looks for first.
Which sign falls where
Brahmin · 3
Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces
Kshatriya · 3
Aries, Leo, Sagittarius
Vaishya · 3
Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn
Shudra · 3
Gemini, Libra, Aquarius
Common questions
- How many points is Varna Koota worth?
- 1 marks out of the thirty-six, the lightest of the eight.
- How often does it score zero?
- In 270 of the 729 possible nakshatra pairings — 37%.
- Does it read the same for the boy and the girl?
- No. This koota's table is asymmetric — swapping the two sides can change the score, and that is the classical rule. In the table above the row is the groom and the column is the bride.
- What score is needed on Varna Koota?
- The texts set no threshold on a single koota — the threshold is eighteen out of thirty-six on the total. A zero here is not separately named a dosha.
- How do I find mine?
- It comes from your birth Moon — from your sign. Find yours in the list above, or cast a chart and read it directly.
Ashtakoot compares the two Moons only. It does not check Manglik dosha, the seventh house, the ninth-part chart or the periods either person is running.
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The matching tool runs all eight kootas on two birth charts and prints what produced each score — including the cancellations, named rather than silently applied.
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