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The holy Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa — 65 / Hari said: / I shall state the auspicious marks of men and women taught by Samudra, / by the mere understanding of which knowledge of past and future arises.

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Sweatless, soft-soled, resembling the interior of a lotus, / with touching toes, copper nails, feet free of visible veins,

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arched like a tortoise, with hidden ankle-joints, and fine heels, are held to belong to a king. / Winnowing-basket-shaped, rough, crooked, and veiny feet,

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withered, with pale nails, and widely spaced toes belong to a destitute man; / feet prickling [to the touch] and astringent-colored [belong to one doomed to constant] travel.

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[Shanks] resembling a peg bring destruction to the family and indicate the killer of a brahmin. / One whose shanks have sparse hair delights in approaching forbidden women.

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Shanks that are smooth-haired, symmetrical, and lustrous like an elephant's trunk, / and thighs and knees that are even and well-fleshed, are considered to belong to a king.

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Jackal-like shanks belong to a pauper. A single hair per pore / belongs to kings and Vedic scholars; two hairs each bring fortune to the wise.

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By three hairs or more, men become indigent, unfortunate, and despised. / And when the hair is curled, a man dies in a foreign land.

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Fleshless knees bring good fortune; small, depressed ones bring pleasure with a woman; / awkward ones bring poverty; and well-fleshed ones bring kingship.

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By large [knees] long life is declared; a man with a small penis is rich; / one without offspring has a thick penis; and one destitute of wealth [has an uneven one].

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If the penis is bent to the left, he will be bereft of sons and wealth; / if bent otherwise, he will have sons; poverty comes when it is bent downwards.

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When the penis is small, a man is sonless; when veined, he is happy; / when the penis has a thick knot, he will be endowed with sons and other blessings.

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When it is hidden in the sheath, or long and crooked, he is bereft of wealth. / A man with a light, swift organ is strong and of a warlike nature.

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A man with a single testicle is weak; with uneven ones, he is fickle with women; / with equal ones, he is said to be an earth-ruler; with a hanging one, he lives a hundred years.

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With enlarged ones, he has a long lifespan; with rough glans, he is a lord; / with pale glans, men are destitute; with dark ones, they partake of happiness.

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Men whose urine is noisy or silent become poor; / and by streams numbering one, two, three, four, five, or six,

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or by urine swirling in a clockwise direction, they are recognized as kings. / Those who scatter their urine are destitute, yet bringers of supreme happiness.

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Those with a single stream belong to women; with glossy, elevated, / and even glans, men possess jewels of women and wealth; with depressed middles, daughters.

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Those with dry ones are destitute, and with dried-up ones, unfortunate. / When semen smells of flowers, men are kings; when it smells of honey, there is abundant wealth;

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when semen smells of fish, there are sons; and when semen is thin, daughters; / when it smells of meat, he is a great enjoyer; when smelling of rut, he is a sacrificer;

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and when smelling of potash, he is poor. One who ejaculates quickly has a long life; / one who does not ejaculate quickly has a short life; one with thick buttocks is destitute of wealth.

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One with fleshy buttocks will be happy; one with lion-like buttocks is considered an earth-ruler. / A man with a lion-like waist is a king; a man with a monkey-like waist is indigent.

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Men with serpent-like bellies are poor, as are those with bellies like cooking-pots or jars; / those with broad flanks are wealthy; those with red and low flanks are destitute.

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Those with symmetrical armpits abound in enjoyments; those with sunken armpits are destitute of wealth; / kings have elevated armpits; crooked men have asymmetrical armpits.

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Those with fish-like bellies have abundant wealth; by their navels men are judged happy; / with broad, extensive, and sunken ones, they are partakers of distress.

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A navel set within folds of the skin indeed produces the torment of colic; / swirling to the left it brings difficulty, and turning to the right, intelligence.

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Long on the sides, it grants a long life; situated high, a master of wealth; / downward-facing, it makes one rich in cattle; shaped like a lotus pericarp, kingship.

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One with a single fold lives a hundred years; one with two folds is considered an enjoyer of prosperity; / one with three folds is an earth-ruler or teacher; with straight folds, one is happy.

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One with crooked folds approaches forbidden women. Kings have fleshy, / soft, and very symmetrical flanks, with hairs turning clockwise.

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With the opposite, they are servants of others, penniless, and bereft of happiness. / With unraised nipples, men become fortunate;

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with uneven and long ones, they are destitute; with plump and well-formed ones, they are kings. / An even and elevated chest that is steady, fleshy, and broad

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belongs to kings; and that which has rough hair and veins belongs to base men. / One with a symmetrical chest will be wealthy; with a plump chest, powerful.

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With an uneven chest, one is destitute, and dies by the sword. / Men with uneven collarbones and those with visible bones are destitute.

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With high ones they are enjoyers; with low ones, destitute; with plump ones, endowed with wealth. / One with a flat throat is destitute; one with a veined, thin neck is happy.

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A man with a buffalo-like neck is a hero; one with a deer-like throat is versed in the scriptures; / one with a conch-like neck is a king; one with an elongated throat is a glutton.

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A hairless and bowed back is auspicious, and otherwise inauspicious. / An armpit shaped like an aśvattha leaf, fragrant, and with deer-like hair is best;

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otherwise, it is a cause of poverty and loss of wealth. / Shoulders that are bent and small, or closely knit and broad, are auspicious.

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Arms hanging down to the knees, rounded, and plump belong to an overlord of kings. / Hairy and short arms belong to the destitute; those resembling an elephant's trunk are supreme.

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Auspicious fingers on the hands are those possessing wind-openings; / they are slender for the intelligent, and considered flat for servants.

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With thick fingers men are destitute; with very emaciated ones they are humbled. / Those with hands like monkeys are poor; with hands like tigers, strength [is indicated].

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Loss of ancestral wealth comes to men from a hollow palm. / With concealed, closely knit, and fragrant-smelling wrists,

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they become kings; those with cuts across their hands, or noisy ones, are destitute of wealth; / with closed and depressed [palms], men are declared wealthy.

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Those with upturned hands are generous givers; with uneven hands, men are dishonest; / with hands and palms having the hue of red lac, men are masters.

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Those with yellow palms are devoted to others' wives; with rough ones, men are deemed destitute. / Men with nails resembling chaff are eunuchs; with crooked and cracked ones,

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and likewise with bad nails, they are destitute; with discolored nails, they are suspicious of others. / With copper-colored nails, and thumbs marked with barley-corns, they are kings and wealthy;

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with lines originating at the base of the thumb, a man has sons; one with long joints on his fingers / is long-lived and fortunate; one with wide-spaced fingers is poor;

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and one with closely set fingers possesses wealth. For the king in whose palm / three lines arise from the wrist,

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the man marked with a pair of fish will be a distributor of food. / Lines shaped like a thunderbolt belong to the wealthy; resembling a fish tail, to the wise;

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resembling a conch, an umbrella, a palanquin, an elephant, or a lotus, to a king; / resembling a water-jar, a goad, a banner, or a lotus stalk, to a lord of treasure;

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resembling a rope, to those rich in cattle; resembling a svastika, to an overlord of kings; / and resembling a discus, sword, javelin, bow, or spear, on the hand of a king.

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[Lines] resembling a mortar indicate one rich in sacrifices; resembling an altar, one who maintains the sacred fire;
resembling a reservoir, a temple water-course, or triangular, a righteous man.

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The lines running at the base of the thumb are sons; the fine ones are daughters.
A line extending from the forefinger and going to the base of the little finger

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makes one live a hundred years; if it is broken, there is danger from a tree.
Those with many lines are destitute, and those with thin chins are devoid of wealth.

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With fleshy, slightly red lower lips, men become kings,
and with [lips] resembling a bimba fruit; with cracked, rough, and dry lips, [they become miserable].

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With irregular [teeth], they are destitute of wealth; glossy and dense teeth are auspicious.
Sharp, even teeth are the best; a red, even tongue is auspicious.

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It should be known as smooth and long. When the palate is white, there is loss of wealth;
and when it is black, a man is harsh. A face that is even, pleasant, and symmetrical

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is spotless and smooth for kings, and the opposite for the afflicted;
great sorrow belongs to the unfortunate. One whose face is like a woman's obtains a son.

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A round face belongs to the wealthy, and an elongated one to the destitute.
One with a timid face commits sins; a square face belongs to the deceitful.

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A sunken face belongs to the childless, and a short one to the miserly.
Full and charming belongs to the pleasure-lovers; glossy, soft beard is auspicious.

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Compact and with un-split tips; one with a red beard is a thief.
Those with reddish, sparse, and rough beards and ears meet an evil death.

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With fleshless, flat ears, there are worldly pleasures; misers have short ears;
kings have nail-shaped ears, and those with hairy ears have exhausted their lifespan.

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Those with large ears are declared to be wealthy and kings;
men are kings through ears that are glossy, well-knit, pendulous, and fleshy.

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A pleasure-enjoyer has sunken cheeks; a minister has full cheeks.
One with a parrot-like nose is happy, and one with a dry nose lives long.

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One with a nose like a well with a broken tip is devoted to approaching forbidden women.
With a long nose, there is good fortune; one with contracted sense-organs is a thief.

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Death occurs for one with a flat nose; a low nose belongs to the fortunate.
With small orifices, well-formed nostrils, and straightness, one is a sovereign of kings.

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In a cruel man, it is crooked to the right. A single sneeze of strong men,
if solid, deep, and resonant, prolongs life.

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With eyes curved at the corners and resembling lotus petals, men share in happiness.
With cat-like eyes, one is wicked; with honey-brown eyes, an evil soul.

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Cruel are those with squinting eyes; those with greenish eyes are full of stain.
With crooked eyes are heroes; commanders of armies have elephant-like eyes.

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Those with deep-set eyes are rulers; ministers have large eyes;
those with eyes like blue lotuses are learned; those with dark eyes have good fortune.

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Of those with black-pupiled eyes, the gouging out of the eyes is said to happen.
Those with circular eyes are wicked; those with wretched eyes are destitute.

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A glossy and large gaze leads to enjoyment; one excessively raised brings short life.
A wide, high [brow] is happy; those with irregular eyebrows are poor.

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Thick, long, and well-joined eyebrows, and good eyebrows raised like the crescent moon, [bring fortune].
A wealthy man has [such brows], while a destitute man has broken brows, and brows bent in the middle.

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They are attached to approachable women, yet are deprived of a son.
With elevated and wide temples and uneven foreheads,

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men are destitute, while with foreheads resembling the half-moon, they are wealthy.
Teachers have [foreheads] broad like a pearl-oyster; with veiny foreheads, they are evil-doers.

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With elevated veins resembling a svastika, they become lords of wealth.
With sunken foreheads, they deserve imprisonment and are devoted to cruel deeds.

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With contracted foreheads, they are misers; with elevated foreheads, kings.
Tearless, smooth weeping that is not dejected brings good fortune to men.

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Weeping that has abundant tears, is wretched, and dry brings happiness.
Laughter without trembling is best; with closed eyes, it brings misfortune.

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Repeated laughter is evil; of a madman, it is manifold.
Three lines running across the forehead belong to centenarians.

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Kingship occurs with four, and a lifespan of ninety-five years.
With no line, the lifespan is ninety; with broken ones, they are adulterers.

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With lines reaching the edge of the hair, a man lives eighty years.
With five, seven, or six, or with many lines, fifty [years].

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Forty [years] with crooked lines; thirty with lines touching the eyebrows;
twenty with lines crooked to the left; with small lines, lifespan is short.

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With heads shaped like an umbrella, men are kings; one with a sunken head is wealthy.
With flat heads, death of the father occurs; with round heads, they possess cattle and the like.

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One with a pot-shaped head delights in sin and is destitute of wealth and the like.
With black, curled hair, glossy, growing singly,

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unsplit at the tips, soft, and not too abundant, men are kings.
With hair having many roots, uneven, coarse at the tips, and tawny,

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they are destitute; likewise with extremely crooked, dense, and excessive head-hair.
Whatever limb is very rough, veiny, and fleshless,

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all of that is inauspicious; the opposite of that [is auspicious].
Broad in three, deep, long, and fine in five,

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raised in six, short in four, red in seven: he is a king.
The navel, the voice, and the inner strength—these three are spoken of as deep.

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Of a man, the forehead, face, and chest should be very broad.
The eyes, the armpits, the nose, and the nape of the neck—these six are elevated for a king.

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And short are the shanks, neck, and penis,
and the back—these four. Red are the hands, palate, lower lip, nails,

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the corners of the eyes, feet, tongue, and upper lip; five are indeed fine:
teeth, finger-joints, nails, hair, and skin are auspicious.

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Long are the space between the breasts, the arms, teeth, eyes, and nose.
The characteristics of men have been stated; I shall speak of the characteristics in women.

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A queen has glossy, even feet, copper-red soles and nails,
closely set toes, and elevated tips; having obtained her, one becomes a king.

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Auspicious are [feet] with concealed ankles, plump, with soles charming like lotuses,
not sweating, with soft soles, marked with a fish, goad, and flag,

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and bearing the marks of a thunderbolt, lotus, and plough; a maidservant's feet are the opposite.
The two shanks, hairless, well-rounded, and veinless, are auspicious.

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Auspicious is the joint area that is not prominent, and two even knees.
The thighs shaped like an elephant's trunk, hairless, and even, are auspicious.

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Resembling a leaf of the sacred fig tree, broad, the private part is excellent.
For women, the hips, the forehead, and thighs elevated like a tortoise are auspicious.

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A concealed clitoris brings good fortune, and heavy buttocks are auspicious. / Broad, well-covered with flesh, deep, and wide is an auspicious [navel].

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A navel coiling to the right, a waist adorned with three folds, / hairless, plump, firm, and even breasts are auspicious.

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Firm breasts and a soft neck having hair and the appearance of a conch are praised. / Lips that are reddish are best; the face should be fleshy and round.

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Her teeth should resemble kunda flowers, and her speech should be like that of a cuckoo, / polite, candid, and bringing delight like the cry of a swan.

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A woman's nose is auspicious when it is straight, with symmetrical nostrils, and attractive; / her eyes should resemble blue lotus flowers, joined near the nose, and not hanging down.

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The eyebrows should not be thick and should resemble the crescent moon; the forehead, / in the shape of a half-moon, not excessively high, and hairless, is auspicious.

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Both ears should be very fleshy, symmetrical, soft, and well-proportioned. / The hair of the head should be glossy, black, soft, and curled.

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For women, an even head is best. On the foot or the palm of the hand, / [marks of] a horse, an elephant, a bilva tree, a sacrificial post, an arrow, barley, or javelins,

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a flag, a chowrie, garlands, a mountain, earrings, altars, / a conch, an umbrella, lotus flowers, a fish, a svastika, or a fine chariot—

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women possessing such marks, like the goad and the rest, become beloved of kings. / Hands with concealed wrist-joints and resembling the interior of a lotus,

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the palm of women that is neither depressed nor elevated is auspicious. / Marked with lines, it makes a woman not a widow and rich in enjoyments. / The line that rises from the wrist and goes to the middle finger on the hand,

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or that which runs across the palm, or is found running upward on the sole of the foot, / brings kingship and happiness both to women and to men.

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A line originating at the base of the little finger brings a life of one hundred years / when it goes into the space between the forefinger and middle finger.

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If shorter, it brings a shorter life. The lines located at the base of the thumb: / large ones are proclaimed to be sons, and slender ones to be daughters.

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Much broken [lines indicate] short life; long and unbroken ones indicate long life. / Auspicious characteristics of women have thus been declared; otherwise, they are inauspicious.

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She whose little toe or ring toe does not touch the ground, / or whose foretoe extends past the big toe, is an unchaste woman.

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Elevated above the two calves, with shanks excessively veined, / hairy, and overly fleshy, and a belly shaped like a jar—

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a navel curling to the left, depressed, and small, and a small pudendum belong to wretched women. / By a short neck a woman becomes destitute; by a long one, destruction of the lineage occurs.

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Women with a thick neck become fierce, there is no doubt of this. / If she is squint-eyed, tawny-eyed, dark-eyed, or has roving eyes,

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and dimples appear on her cheeks when she smiles, she is certainly adulterous. / A hanging fold of skin on the forehead, that woman kills her husband's younger brother;

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[on her] belly, she kills her father-in-law; on both buttocks, she kills her husband. / She whose upper lip is hairy is indeed inauspicious for her husband.

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Breasts with hair and asymmetrical ears are inauspicious; / dreadful and uneven teeth bring distress.

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[Gums] with black flesh lead to thievery, and long teeth to the death of the husband. / Hands that resemble beasts of prey, like a wolf, a crow, and so forth,

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veined, irregular, and dry, cause women to be devoid of wealth. / She whose upper lip is raised speaks harshly in quarrels.

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These are defects in uncomely women; virtues are [shaped] like leaves. / The characteristics of men and women have been taught; I will next speak of that which grants knowledge.

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Thus ends the sixty-fifth chapter, named "The Characteristics of Women and Men," in the astrological science of physiognomy, in the section on conduct, the first division of the first section in the glorious and great Garuḍapurāṇa.

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