Garudapurana 1.63

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The holy Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa — 63 / Hari said: / I shall state briefly the marks of men and women; hear, O Śaṅkara! / Sweatless, soft-soled, resembling the interior of a lotus,

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with touching toes, copper-colored nails, well-formed ankles, free of veins, / and arched like a tortoise—such are the feet of an excellent king.

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Rough, with pale nails, crooked, bent with veins, / winnowing-basket-shaped feet, dried up and with widely spaced toes,

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bring sorrow and poverty; no doubt should be held here. / Shins endowed with little hair, resembling an elephant's trunk, are best.

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There is a single hair per follicle on great-souled kings, / but two hairs per follicle on scholars and Vedic scholars.

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Three hairs belong to the poor; a man with fleshless knees is sickly. / One with a small penis will be wealthy, though devoid of sons and the like.

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A man with a thick penis will be poor; one with a single testicle will be miserable. / With unequal testicles, he is fickle toward women; with equal testicles, he will be a king.

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One with hanging testicles is short-lived; one with a defective glans will be destitute. / A man is happy with pale or dark glans-markings.

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Those who urinate with a sound are destitute; kings urinate with a soundless stream. / Those with an even belly are rich in enjoyment; those with a pot-like belly will be destitute.

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Those with serpent-like bellies are poor; and lifespan is told by forehead lines. / He on whose forehead three continuous lines are seen

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is happy, endowed with sons, and that man lives for sixty years. / From the appearance of two lines, a man lives forty years.

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With a single line, twenty years; lines reaching to the ears grant a lifespan of a hundred years.

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Two lines give a life of seventy years, while with three lines it becomes sixty. / With indistinct or broken lines, a man's lifespan becomes twenty.

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A man deficient in lines lives for forty years; / and by broken lines, an untimely death indeed befalls a man.

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On whose forehead a trident or a spear is seen, / endowed with wealth and sons, he will live a hundred autumns.

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The lifeline that reaches between the index and middle fingers, / O Rudra, he who has it will live a hundred autumns.

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The first is the line of knowledge, proceeding from the thumb; / the line going to the base of the middle finger is the lifeline beyond it.

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The lifeline extending to the little finger, / whether unbroken or divided, makes him live a hundred autumns.

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The line on one's palm that reveals lifespan— / he will live a hundred years, an enjoyer of pleasures, O Rudra, without doubt.

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Reaching from the little finger up to the middle finger, / the lifeline grants a human being a life of sixty years.

Thus ends the sixty-third chapter, named “Determination of the Auspicious Marks of Men in Bodily Science”, in the Treatise on Astral Science, in the section on Conduct, in the first part called the first section, of the holy Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa.

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Garuḍapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit