Shravana gives a deva gana, the monkey yoni and the Antya nadi to a match, and every Shravana Moon sits in Capricorn. In the table above its usual totals as the groom run from 5.5 to 29.5, the top figure is the same when Shravana is the bride, and nothing reaches the excellent band.
Many Shravana cells show a narrow range such as 27–28. That is not rounding; it comes from a line that runs through the middle of this nakshatra, and it is the first thing to understand when reading a Shravana row from our kundli matching engine.
Shravana's matching profile
Shravana, the nakshatra of Vishnu, is ruled by the Moon and lies between 10° and 23°20′ of Capricorn, a sign ruled by Saturn. For the eight kootas:
- Gana (6): deva. A deva nakshatra never scores 0 on gana.
- Yoni (4): monkey, female. Purva Ashadha is the male monkey; the sheep of Krittika and Pushya is the enemy.
- Nadi (8): Antya.
- Tara (3) from its position, and varna, vashya, graha maitri and bhakoot from Capricorn.
Why a Capricorn Moon can read two ways
Vashya sorts Moon signs into classes. Capricorn is split: its first half counts as four-footed and its second half as a water sign, with the change at 15°. Shravana spans that point. A Shravana Moon from 10° to 15° takes the four-footed class; from 15° to 23°20′, the larger stretch, it takes the water class.
The difference is worth about a point with most partners, which is why cells such as Ashwini, Bharani and Shravana with itself read 27–28. The "usual" score is the one that applies over most of the arc, so it reflects the water-class part. Nothing else about Shravana changes across 15°, since the sign and its lord stay the same.
Wider ranges come from partners that sit on a sign boundary. Dhanishta is the clearest case: its usual score with Shravana is 29, but the cell runs 20.5–29 with Shravana as the groom and 19.5–29 as the bride. When Dhanishta's Moon is in Capricorn the two share a sign and the sign-based kootas score well; once it crosses into Aquarius the signs are adjacent and bhakoot scores nothing.
The shape of the row
As the groom, Shravana has 5 usual scores below 18, 12 in the 18–24.5 band and 10 in 25–32. As the bride: 6, 11 and 10. Uttara Bhadrapada leads at 29.5 both ways, even though it falls on a pratyari tara from Shravana. Dhanishta follows at 29, then Shravana with Shravana at 28, Ashwini at 27 as groom and 28 as bride, and Bharani at 27.
The weakest usual scores for a Shravana groom are Magha (5.5), Krittika (11) and Ashlesha (15). All three are rakshasa, which leaves gana at 1, and all three share Shravana's nadi. Krittika also carries the sheep, Shravana's enemy yoni, and Magha sits on a vadha tara.
As a deva nakshatra, Shravana gains the full 6 for gana with a manushya bride but only 5 with a manushya groom. That, along with varna, accounts for the small groom and bride differences.
Yoni and tara
Monkey and sheep are sworn enemies, so Krittika and Pushya score 0 of 4 on yoni. Purva Ashadha, the other monkey, scores the full 4.
From Shravana, the vipat tara falls on Ardra, Swati and Shatabhisha; pratyari on Pushya, Anuradha and Uttara Bhadrapada; vadha on Ashwini, Magha and Mula. That Ashwini and Uttara Bhadrapada still sit near the top shows how little tara, at 1.5 per direction, moves a total. Some schools count tara only from the bride.
Antya nadi, calmly
Shravana shares the Antya nadi with Krittika, Rohini, Ashlesha, Magha, Swati, Vishakha, Uttara Ashadha and Revati. Nadi scores 0 with each. Uttara Ashadha is the one where an exception can apply: three of its four padas are in Capricorn, and with a shared Moon sign the "same Moon sign, different nakshatras" exception comes into play. For Shravana with Shravana, "different padas" can apply. With the other seven, no exception applies.
The tradition gives nadi the most weight of any koota, and it also records these exceptions; practitioners disagree about how far the exceptions go. Our explainer on nadi dosha covers both sides.
Beyond the 36
A Shravana match still needs the rest of each chart: manglik status, the seventh house, the navamsa and the dashas. South Indian systems such as the ten poruthams read the pair by their own rules, and families in some regions weigh particular kootas more than others. For every other row, see the nakshatra compatibility chart; for the neighbour that shares Capricorn, see Uttara Ashadha.