Also called: Kachhua · tortoise · turtle · kūrma

Where on the hand: Palm surface.

What it looks like: A broad shallow dome (the shell) on a flat base-line, with four short leg-strokes projecting at the corners and a small blunt head-stroke at one end — sometimes with two or three internal lines dividing the shell into plates.

'Makes a person lucky' — the most consistent single-word reading in the tradition. Also patience, perseverance, steady and irreversible success, and protection (the withdrawn senses of the kūrma), with the Kūrma-avatāra association of support and stability.

Makes a person lucky.the 32 lucky signs list