A ten-koota porutham set combined with a careful balancing of malefic afflictions.
Check a match — free →Kerala marriage matching (പൊരുത്തം) uses a Dasakoota, a ten-koota porutham set. The ten are Dina, Gana, Mahendra, Sthree Deergha, Yoni, Vedha, Rajju, Rasi, Rasi Athipathi and Vasiya. As in the other South-Indian systems, each koota tests a different aspect of the pairing — longevity, temperament, progeny and household harmony among them — and the couple's agreement across the ten forms the koota count.
Most of these kootas will be recognisable from the Tamil porutham set, and that is no coincidence: Kerala shares the South-Indian koota lineage, so the individual tests and the way they are read carry over closely. Someone familiar with a Tamil porutham verdict will find the Kerala koota count broadly comparable, factor for factor, which makes the two easy to read alongside one another.
| Dasakoota |
|---|
| Dina |
| Gana |
| Mahendra |
| Sthree Deergha |
| Yoni |
| Vedha |
| Rajju |
| Rasi |
| Rasi Athipathi |
| Vasiya |
What distinguishes Kerala practice is that the Dasakoota is combined with Papasamyam (പാപസാമ്യം) — the balancing of malefic afflictions, such as those arising from the placement of Mars or Saturn. The emphasis in Kerala falls strongly on this dosha balancing alongside the koota count. A pairing that scores well on the ten kootas can still be set aside if the papa (affliction) levels between the two charts are unbalanced. In other words, the kootas and the Papasamyam are read together, not one after the other.
This is what most sets Kerala practice apart from a system that leans only on a koota total. The question is not simply how many kootas agree, but whether the malefic weight each chart carries is comparable — the balancing is between the two charts, not a score in isolation. A match can look convincing on the ten kootas and still be reconsidered once the papa levels are weighed, and juno.date reflects that by presenting the Dasakoota and the Papasamyam side by side rather than reducing them to one figure.
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