Also called: Varāhamihira ch. 68 · men's hand marks

Where on the hand: The palm surface and the wrist; several items are given as sole-marks in the same chapter.

What it looks like: Not a mark. The oldest surviving systematic enumeration of palm-symbols in Sanskrit, given as a table of shapes and their meanings.

Varāhamihira's chapter 68 is the earliest systematic Sanskrit list of auspicious hand-marks. It is notably restrained compared with the modern Hindi lists — no trident, no temple, no om — and it works largely by clusters rather than single symbols.

Triangular or rope-like twisted lines suggest richness.Bṛhat Saṃhitā 68