Also called: Kankana · Valaya · Jewelled bangle · Bracelet mark · Wristlet sign

Where on the hand: Low in the palm near the wrist, or on the Mount of Venus; listed among the marks on the divine hands.

What it looks like: A closed ring, slightly flattened, drawn as a bangle seen at an angle — distinguished from the plain circle by being a band rather than a line, sometimes with fine cross-hatching suggesting jewelling.

The bangle is the ornament of the married and the auspicious woman, and of the hand engaged in service and worship. Read on a hand it is taken as an auspicious and protected married life, as ornaments and gold coming to the person, and — in the devotional gloss — as the ornament that remains on the hands of those engaged in devotional service.