Also called: Santan rekha · Lines of Children

Where on the hand: The two traditions genuinely diverge. Western: fine vertical lines rising from — or crossing — the Marriage/Affection lines on the Mount of Mercury below the little finger. Indian (the older doctrine): vertical lines on the Mount of Venus at the base of the thumb, and/or on the upper Mount of Luna, with the Mercury-mount lines as a secondary check.

What it looks like: Extremely fine vertical hairlines, effectively invisible without a magnifying glass and good raking light. Some are deep, straight and comparatively broad; others thin, short and slanting.

Traditionally the number, sex, health and vigour of children. In the more careful modern reading of both traditions, the number of children with whom the subject has a deep bond — which may include stepchildren, adopted children, students or those cared for.

Western reading: Fine vertical lines on the Mount of Mercury, rising from or crossing the Marriage lines. Benham's chapter simply does not treat children lines as predictive.

Read with care: The sources themselves call this the least reliable area of palmistry in both traditions. Contraception, fertility treatment, adoption and voluntary childlessness break the classical assumptions entirely, and sex-of-child readings should never be presented as prediction.

Inko sirf magnifying glass se hi padha ja sakta haiIndian sources