Also called: two fishes · matsya-yugala · golden fish pair

Where on the hand: Palm surface — two complete fish figures occurring together.

What it looks like: Two complete fish-figures side by side or facing one another, each a pointed lens body with a forked tail beyond one cusp; in the aṣṭamaṅgala form the two are drawn upright and facing, tails down.

Where a single fish gives sufficiency and protection, the pair is explicitly a mark of royalty. The Garuḍa Purāṇa lists 'two fishes' among the marks of royalty, and the pair is one of the eight auspicious symbols in both the Jain and the Buddhist aṣṭamaṅgala.

Read with care: Citation correction: Garuḍa Purāṇa LXV says two fishes on the palm make the person a GREAT SACRIFICER, not a king; the chapter's royalty sentences are separate and contain no fish. The claim that this mark appears identically in the Purāṇic royalty list is therefore false.