| Jupiter | Bride | Graded from her Moon sign: best in the 2nd, 5th, 7th, 9th and 11th; with worship in the 1st, 3rd, 6th and 10th; condemned in the 4th, 8th and 12th. Shown, never used to drop a day: Vyāsa needs no Jupiter for a bride past ten. | MC 6.12, pp. 233–234 |
| The Sun | Groom | Good by gochara, with vedha, counts in a day’s favour. Otherwise it is named as a fault; the texts read give no remedy. Our reading | MC 6.12, p. 234 |
| The Moon | Both | Judged at each lagna and at godhūli. One partner lacking: a fault, with Dharmasindhu’s remedy, a gift of silver. Both lacking: that lagna is dropped. Our reading | DS p. 181 |
| Tara | Both | The 3rd, 5th or 7th star from a birth star is bad. One partner: a fault, with the verse’s remedy, rock salt. Both: that lagna is dropped. Lifted for a partner when the Moon is in a benefic’s sign and good for them. Our reading | MC 4.18, p. 157; 5.32, p. 192 |
| First-born | Each first-born | The birth month, star and tithi are barred for a partner marked first-born, and the birth muhūrta too, Vasiṣṭha’s addition as we read it. For a partner who is not, the same month, star and tithi count in the day’s favour. Our reading | MC 6.14, p. 236 |
| Three jyeshthas | Both | Both first-born: never in the month of Jyeshtha. In another month the Dharmasindhu calls it middling; the Muhūrta-cintāmaṇi’s commentary rejects that and records Garga’s view that an eldest son and an eldest daughter should not marry each other. The search notes it and removes no date. One first-born in Jyeshtha: a light fault, for when there is no other way. | MC 6.15, pp. 236–237; DS p. 181 |
| The 8th lagna | Both | The 8th sign from either partner’s birth lagna or Moon sign may not rise, except the six signs MC 6.45 exempts. Guru’s remedy can lift it. | MC 6.44–45, pp. 271–272 |
| Rising sign | Both | A partner’s Moon sign rising is a fault. Their birth lagna rising, or the 3rd, 6th, 10th or 11th sign from either, counts in the lagna’s favour. | MC p. 271 |