Also called: Manibandh rekha · Rascette · Bracelets of Life · Bracelets of Neptune

Where on the hand: Horizontal creases encircling the wrist at the very base of the palm, running across from the radial edge below Venus to the ulnar edge below Luna. Most people have three; some four. Number them 1 = the one nearest the palm, counting downward toward the forearm.

What it looks like: Two to four parallel wrist creases, at best clear, unbroken and well-coloured; they may instead be chain-linked, thick and coarse, plaited, broken, tangled, black-tinted, or the topmost may arch upward into the palm.

Constitution, longevity, inherited vigour, and the general "ground" of the life. In Indian practice the manibandh is additionally a health and fertility indicator, and it is read at marriage matching.

Western reading: The Rascette or Bracelets of Life, also called the Bracelets of Neptune; classically the seat of the 25-or-30-years-per-bracelet longevity count, now regarded as folklore.

Read with care: Two readings here are explicitly flagged as harmful or archaic: the upward-arched first bracelet, read as difficulty in childbirth or sterility in women and urogenital trouble in men — which modern practitioners of both traditions call obsolete and which must not be delivered as a prediction — and Dale's star-near-Venus reading of "misfortune and infamy" in a woman, recorded only for completeness. The longevity count is folklore, not method.