Also called: Mandir · Shrine sign
Where on the hand: Anywhere on the palm; the sources define it by shape rather than position.
What it looks like: A triangle sitting on top of a square — the triangle forming the temple's roof or shikhara above the square shrine body.
“Extremely rare and highly auspicious” — spiritual wisdom and divine protection.
On each mount
- **Any mount** — the temple's reading attaches to the sign rather than the site; no mount table exists.
- **Its components** — the square is the protection mark and the triangle the mark of skill and success, so the compound is read as protection plus attainment in the spiritual register.
- **Compare the lotus and fish** — the three sit together at the top of the Samudrik auspicious list.
On each line
- **Not a line mark** — the temple is a free-standing compound figure.
- **Formed across a line** — where the square component straddles a line, the square's protective line-readings apply in addition.
- **Independence** — as a compound of two independently formed figures, it is exceptionally vulnerable to false identification from chance line crossings.
Where it is positive
- **Everywhere it occurs** — wholly auspicious.
- **Spiritual wisdom** — the primary reading.
- **Divine protection** — the secondary reading, inherited from the square component.
Palmistry is a traditional interpretive art, not a science. Offered for reflection and self-understanding — not medical, legal or financial advice.