Vishakha's gun milan comes down to a rakshasa gana, a male tiger yoni and Antya nadi, together with a Moon sign that is Libra for the first three padas and Scorpio for the fourth. Across the table above, its full scores stretch from 4.5 to 34.5 with Vishakha as groom and from 5.5 to 34.5 with Vishakha as bride.
Most of that spread sits below the middle: only a handful of Vishakha's usual scores reach the good band. But the handful are telling, because nearly all of them share Vishakha's gana.
Vishakha's fixed and moving parts
Vishakha is ruled by Jupiter, with Indra and Agni together as its deities, and a decorated archway or a potter's wheel as its symbol. For the eight kootas:
- Fixed: rakshasa gana (6 points), tiger yoni (4 points; Chitra is the female tiger), Antya nadi (8 points), and tara (3 points), which depends only on the star.
- Moving: varna, vashya, graha maitri and bhakoot, worth 15 points between them, which follow the Moon sign and change when the Moon crosses from Libra into Scorpio.
That is why Vishakha with itself runs from 17 to 28, and why many of its cells carry a range.
Reading the row
As groom, Vishakha's usual totals split 10 below 18, 12 from 18 to 24½, 4 from 25 to 32 and 1 above 32. As bride, 9, 13, 4 and 1.
The best pairing is Chitra at 34.5 in both roles, with a wide range (24.5–34.5 as groom, 23.5–34.5 as bride) because Chitra also spans two signs. Then come Dhanishta (29 as groom, 30 as bride), Vishakha itself at 28, Mula (26 as groom, 27 as bride) and Shatabhisha at 26.
Look at the gana of those five: Chitra, Dhanishta, Vishakha, Mula and Shatabhisha are all rakshasa. With a rakshasa partner gana gives the full 6, and Vishakha's scores rise accordingly. The Shatabhisha cell also shows that a range can sit above the usual figure (26, range 26–27.5 as groom), since the usual score is simply what holds over most of the arc.
At the other end, with Vishakha as groom, Revati gives 4.5, Rohini 9.5 and Uttara Bhadrapada 12.
Gana, the cow and tara
With any manushya star, a rakshasa gana scores 0 of 6 in either role: Bharani, Rohini, Ardra, Purva Phalguni, Uttara Phalguni, Purva Ashadha, Uttara Ashadha, Purva Bhadrapada and Uttara Bhadrapada. With a deva star it gives 1.
The tiger's sworn enemy is the cow, the yoni of Uttara Phalguni and Uttara Bhadrapada, so yoni is 0 with both. These two are also manushya, which is why Uttara Bhadrapada sits among Vishakha's lowest.
Counting tara from Vishakha, vipat falls on Ashlesha, Jyeshtha and Revati, pratyari on Bharani, Purva Phalguni and Purva Ashadha, and vadha on Rohini, Hasta and Shravana. Rohini and Revati, the two lowest cells, both appear here, alongside a shared nadi (Rohini, Revati) and a zero on gana (Rohini). Some traditions count tara only from the bride, which would change a few of these.
Nadi: Antya partners
Vishakha shares Antya nadi with Krittika, Rohini, Ashlesha, Magha, Swati, Uttara Ashadha, Shravana and Revati. Each pairing scores 0 of 8 on nadi, which the texts call nadi dosha. For seven of those partners, none of the three exceptions our engine checks can apply.
The exception is Swati. Swati is wholly in Libra, and when Vishakha's Moon is also in Libra the two share a sign under different stars, which the tradition allows as an exception. Two Vishakha Moons can qualify too, through different Moon signs or different padas. Our engine flags these without adding points back, because astrologers are not agreed on how much any exception eases the dosha, and some regional customs leave nadi aside for certain stars.
The whole chart
Indragni's star is known for determination, and it is easy to fix on a single number. Proper kundli matching weighs gun milan alongside manglik status, the 7th house, the navamsa and dasha timing, and South Indian porutham systems weigh some of these relations differently. Every other nakshatra's page is linked from the nakshatra compatibility chart.