Garudapurana 1.64
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- 1.64.16 — 1 part
1.64.1
The holy Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa — 64 / Hari said: / She whose hair is curled, whose face is round, / and whose navel turns clockwise, that maiden makes her family prosper.
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She who has the luster of gold and red lotus hands, / among thousands of women, she will be devoted to her husband.
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The maiden who has crooked hair and round eyes, / her husband dies; she is certainly an heir to sorrow.
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A maiden with a full-moon face, shining like the morning sun, / large-eyed, with bimba-fruit lips, that maiden attains happiness.
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By many lines [on the palm] comes trouble; by few, lack of wealth; / by red ones she attains happiness; by black ones she will become a servant.
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In affairs a virtuous wife should be an advisor; she should be a friend in actions; / in affections she should be a mother; and in bed, charming like a courtesan.
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On whose palm there is an elephant-goad, an earring, or a discus, / that woman bears a son and obtains a king for a husband.
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She whose flanks are hairy and whose breasts are hairy, / and whose lower lip is protruding, quickly brings about her husband's death.
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She on whose palm the line forms an rampart or an archway, / even if born in a servant family, attains the status of a queen.
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She whose line of abdominal hair is curved upward, tawny, and unbroken, / even if born in a royal family, attains the status of a maidservant.
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She whose ring finger and big toe do not touch the ground / quickly brings about her husband's death and behaves willfully.
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She by whose mere step an earthquake is produced / quickly brings about her husband's death and behaves willfully.
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From glossiness of the eyes comes good fortune; from glossiness of the teeth comes food; / from glossiness of the skin comes a [fine] bed; and from glossiness of the feet comes a conveyance.
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Glossy, high, with copper-red nails are the auspicious feet of a woman, / marked with the signs of a fish, a goad, a lotus, a discus, and a plow.
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Sweatless and soft-soled feet are praised for a woman; / her shins should be auspicious and hairless, and her thighs like elephant trunks.
1.64.16
Resembling a peepal leaf and broad, the vulva is excellent; / the navel is praised as deep, clockwise-turning, and auspicious; / hairless are a woman's three abdominal folds, and her heart and breasts are devoid of hair.
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Thus ends the sixty-fourth chapter, named “Determination of the Auspicious Marks of Women 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