Bhakoot (also called Rashi koot) is worth 7 of the 36 points in Ashtakoot Guna Milan, and it compares the Moon signs of the two partners. A Bhakoot Dosh is said to arise when the couple's Moon signs fall in a 6-8, 2-12 or 5-9 relationship, in which case this koot scores 0 out of 7. Enter both partners' birth details and the tool reads each Moon sign, checks the distance between them both ways, applies the classical cancellation where it holds, and shows the Bhakoot koot score alongside the overall Guna Milan out of 36.
Bhakoot compares the position of one partner's Moon sign relative to the other. Most positions are favourable and earn the full 7 points, but three counted-both-ways relationships are treated as inauspicious and score 0:
When one of the three relationships is present the Bhakoot koot scores 0, which lowers the total Guna Milan out of 36. Because Bhakoot carries a high weight, this single koot can meaningfully change the overall match, which is why it is checked on its own.
Classical texts also allow a parihara (cancellation) for Bhakoot Dosh, and a cancellation restores the full 7 points rather than leaving the koot at 0 with a footnote attached - the tool treats the dosh as cancelled when both Moon signs share the same sign lord, or when the two sign lords are mutual natural friends. Those two rules are not equally strong, and the report says so: the same-lord rule is unanimous across the sources, while the mutual-friends rule is stated as 'reduced or cancelled' and no text quantifies a partial score, so the restore is binary because no source supplies a figure between 0 and 7. Bhakoot is only one of the eight koots, so it is always read together with the full Ashtakoot Guna Milan.
Ashtakoot Guna Milan scores eight kootas out of 36: Varna 1, Vashya 2, Tara 3, Yoni 4, Graha Maitri 5, Gana 6, Bhakoot 7 and Nadi 8. Bhakoot is the second-heaviest after Nadi, so it alone can move a match across the pass mark practice usually sets at 18 out of 36. That is why this page reads it before the total rather than after. The total need not be a whole number either, since Vashya can score 0.5 and Tara 1.5.
The relationship has to be counted both ways, because the two directions give different numbers: the distance from the bride's Moon sign to the groom's and the distance back again are not the same, and a Shadashtak pair reads 6 one way and 8 the other. The same is true of 2-12 and 5-9, which is why the rule is always written as a pair. Both Moon signs are read from two full charts computed to sub-arcsecond precision, using the Lahiri ayanamsha by default, so a Moon sitting near a sign boundary is placed on the correct side of it - which matters here more than almost anywhere else, because one sign either way changes the distance and can create or dissolve the dosh outright.
Bhakoot Dosh is a flaw in the Bhakoot koot of Ashtakoot Guna Milan, found when the couple's Moon signs fall in a 6-8, 2-12 or 5-9 relationship. When it is present the Bhakoot koot scores 0 out of 7, which reduces the overall matching score.
Three relationships between the two Moon signs: 6-8 (Shadashtak), 2-12 (Dwir-dwadash) and 5-9 (Nav-pancham). Any other distance between the Moon signs is favourable and earns the full 7 Bhakoot points.
Yes, and a cancellation restores the full 7 points. A traditional parihara applies when both Moon signs share the same sign lord, or when the two sign lords are mutual natural friends. The same-lord rule is unanimous across the sources; the mutual-friends rule is weaker, stated as reduced or cancelled, and no text quantifies a partial score - so this calculator restores all 7 or none and names which rule applied.
Seven of the 36 Ashtakoot points, second only to Nadi's eight. The full weighting is Varna 1, Vashya 2, Tara 3, Yoni 4, Graha Maitri 5, Gana 6, Bhakoot 7 and Nadi 8. When a Bhakoot Dosh is present the koot scores 0 of 7; when a parihara cancels it, the full 7 are restored and the overall total is unaffected.
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