Also called: finger marks · marks on the digits

Where on the hand: On the individual fingers and the thumb, as distinct from the fingertip ridge-patterns.

What it looks like: Small independent figures — a short asterisk of crossing lines, a spiral shell-form, or a single dark dot — sitting on the flat of a finger or thumb phalanx rather than in the ridge pattern.

A short list of finger-placements recorded across the sources, each read in the domain of the finger that carries it. The yav on the thumb is the single most-consulted finger-mark in Indian practice, and the only one with a clean left/right rule.

Read with care: The dot or mole on the middle finger is the one inauspicious item in this group, read as continuous obstacles.