Kambu-griva
A neck like a conch with three soft lines, as the texts and poets describe gods and heroes.
- Samudrika Shastra
- हिंदी: कंबुग्रीवा
What is the rule behind Kambu-griva?
The texts praise a neck like a conch with three soft lines (kambu-griva), a broad chest, and a deep navel that turns to the right.
Source: Brihat Samhita
Where can you learn about Kambu-griva?
Kambu-griva is taught in RishiSetu’s Samudrika Shastra course, inside the app, one idea at a time with practice after each.
Related terms
- Gati (gait)The way a person walks. The texts praise a gait like an elephant's, a bull's, a lion's or a swan's. Gait changes with health, age and disability, so it is never used to judge anyone.
- AjanubahuLong arms that reach the knees, the arms poets give Rama. A heroic ideal, never a measure of a person.
- Svara (voice)The voice. The texts praise one that is deep and resonant like a rain cloud or a drum. A voice changes with age, illness and shyness, so a reader quotes the texts and reads no fortune from it.
- Pada rekha (signs on the soles)The lotus, wheel, fish and conch on the soles, the same signs the texts look for on the palms, as in the footprints of Vishnu and the Buddha in art.
- BimbaA red fruit to which the texts liken praised lips.
- Tila (mole)A mole. The texts give a result for a mole on each part of the body, learned as history. A mole that grows or changes is shown to a doctor, never read.
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What does Kambu-griva mean in Samudrika Shastra?
A neck like a conch with three soft lines, as the texts and poets describe gods and heroes. The texts praise a neck like a conch with three soft lines (kambu-griva), a broad chest, and a deep navel that turns to the right.
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