In Buddhism

General definition (in Buddhism)

Source: academia.edu: A Prayer for Rebirth in the Sukhāvatī

Pāṇilekhā (पाणिलेखा) or Pāṇirekhā refers to the “lines on the palm” and represents the first chapter of the Śārdūlakarṇāvadāna. It is found in the corpus of Mahāyāna Buddhist literature known as the Divyāvadāna and preserves a good deal of brahmanic learning related to Jyotiḥśāstra. This chapter deals with the lines on the hands of both happy and unhappy men and explains what they foretell about their longevity and eventual death.

Source: History of Science in South Asia: Three Versions of Crow Omens

Pāṇilekhā (पाणिलेखा) refers to “palmistry” (interpretation of the palm), according to the Divyāvidāna.—The Śārdūlakarṇāvadāna is the thirty-third book in the collection of Buddhist legends called the Divyāvidāna that was likely redacted from stories in the Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya and compiled in the first or second century CE in the north-west region of the Indian subcontinent. A unique feature of this collection is its presentation of an early form of the knowledge system of Jyotiḥśāstra or Astral Science that focuses on divination through astrology. Sometime after 864 CE, the text underwent further redaction, when sections were added that dealt with other types of divination that included, among others, palmistry (pāṇilekhā), physiognomy, and oneiromancy. It is in this later part that the three collections of animal omens are found.

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Partial matches: Lekha, Pani.

Ends with: Anupurvapanilekha, Ayatapanilekha, Gambhirapanilekha, Patighnipanilekha, Snigdhapanilekha.

Full-text: Patighnipanilekha, Anupurvapanilekha, Panirekha, Patighna.

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