Quality of the handindianvery-rare
श्रीकृष्ण चरण चिह्न
Also called: marks on the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa · Vaiṣṇava-toṣaṇī list
Where on the hand: Not a palm position — the soles of Kṛṣṇa's feet, right and left, each mark assigned to a named point (base of a toe, a joint, the heel).
What it looks like: A sole carrying discrete small emblems at fixed points: a spoked disc at the great toe's base, a lotus rosette at the middle toe's base, a double-ended thunderbolt at the small toe's base, a hooked goad on the heel, a barley-oval at the great toe's joint, plus a flag, a vertical line, an umbrella, four swastikas with rose-apples and an octagon.
Per Caitanya-caritāmṛta, the Skanda Purāṇa and the Vaiṣṇava-toṣaṇī, Kṛṣṇa's soles carry nineteen marks, each with a stated reason. This is the most detailed 'auspicious marks' inventory in any Indian tradition, and the source of the reasoning that a symbol acts on the devotee rather than merely predicting.
Read with care: Source correction: the 19 marks and their reasons are genuine but the locus is the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.30.25 purport (quoting the Skanda Purāṇa for six right-foot marks, and Sanātana Gosvāmī's Vaiṣṇava-toṣaṇī to reach 11 right + 8 left), not the Caitanya-caritāmṛta — CC Ādi 14.7 names only flag, thunderbolt, conch, disc and fish.
cuts down the six mental enemies of His devoteesGauḍīya commentary on the disc-mark
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