Also called: Padma Chinha · Kamala Rekha · Padma Rekha · Ucch Kamal · उच्च कमल · exalted lotus · eight-pointed lotus

Where on the hand: Classically on Guru Parvat, the pad below the index finger — for some schools the only valid location. Also accepted below Shani Parvat; the triangle-form sits on the Heart line beneath Jupiter; the Uchch Kamal rises from the Life line.

What it looks like: Three forms circulate and an illustrator should know all three. (a) Rosette: multiple fine lines radiating outward from a single point like opening petals, commonly six to eight rays, so it can be mistaken for a large star — where the rays are longer and curve outward at the tips it reads as a flower rather than a star. (b) Jupiter lattice: many fine lines crossing to make small squares and petal-shapes converging toward the Mount of Jupiter, a dense geometric flower filling the mount. (c) Triangle form: a triangle standing beneath the Mount of Jupiter on the Heart line. The Uchch Kamal is eight to ten upward 'progress' lines rising from a base on the Life line, crossing one another to enclose four, five or more sizeable triangles — a fan of struggle-lines resolving into a flower.

The emperor's mark: purity of character, spiritual attainment, detachment amid success, wealth and wisdom together, and Lakṣmī's constant presence. Held to be the rarest of all the auspicious palm signs. Indian tradition holds it as found on the hands of the avatāras Śrī Rāma and Śrī Kṛṣṇa.

Western reading: Mrs. Dale, fig. 2: a woman with a lotus 'will be sure to become a great lady, in fact almost a queen'; a man 'renowned and great.'

Read with care: One modern practitioner's unverifiable estimate holds that fewer than eighty people alive would carry a true lotus, and many palmists report never having seen one. Treat any claimed lotus with scepticism. Source withdrawn: “Rāvaṇa Saṃhitā” cannot be substantiated as a text containing palmistry. There is no critical edition and no manuscript-catalogue entry; the name attaches to an Ayurvedic Arka-kalpa work, a tantric Ḍāmara-type compilation, and modern Hindi trade volumes — none with an attested hasta-rekhā section.

will be sure to become a great lady, in fact almost a queenMrs. J. B. Dale, Indian Palmistry, fig. 2