Hasta Parichay: reading the hand
Samudrika Shastra reads the body's marks; palmistry starts with the hand's shape and which hand to read.
- 6-minute lesson
- Basic course: Hasta Shishya
- Palmistry
- Samudrika Shastra
- Which hand
- Four shapes
- What a hand can say
A first look at the lesson
Samudrika Shastra is the Indian study of marks on the body, of which hasta (palmistry) is the best-known part. Western palmistry, made popular by Cheiro, uses many of the same ideas.
The dominant hand (the one you write with) shows what a person has made of their life; the other shows inborn tendencies. A reader looks at both, and leans on the dominant one.
Words in this lesson
More lessons on this subject
- Cheiro's seven handsElementary, square, spatulate, philosophic, conic, psychic and mixed: the seven types in brief.
- Anguli: fingers and thumbEach finger belongs to a graha, and the thumb shows will, reason and love.
- The three phalangesEach finger has three sections: the top for the mind, the middle for practical sense, the base for the material.
- Parvata: the mountsThe raised pads of the palm are mounts, each named for a graha; a full, firm mount gives that graha's qualities.
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