The Sanskrit term Kanyālakṣaṇa can be transliterated into English as Kanyalaksana or Kanyalakshana, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Hinduism

Jyotisha (astronomy and astrology)

Source: archive.org: The Bṛhat-saṃhitā of Varāha-mihira

Kanyālakṣaṇa (कन्यालक्षण) refers to “the features of women” as well as the name of the 70th chapter of the Bṛhat-saṃhita.

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Jyotisha (ज्योतिष, jyotiṣa or jyotish) refers to ‘astronomy’ or “Vedic astrology” and represents the fifth of the six Vedangas (additional sciences to be studied along with the Vedas). Jyotisha concerns itself with the study and prediction of the movements of celestial bodies, in order to calculate the auspicious time for rituals and ceremonies.

In Buddhism

General definition (in Buddhism)

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

Kanyālakṣaṇa (कन्यालक्षण) refers to the “marks of girls” and represents the name of a 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.

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

Kanyālakṣaṇa (कन्यालक्षण) refers to “physiognomy” (interpretation of facial features), 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, physiognomy (kanyālakṣaṇa), and oneiromancy. It is in this later part that the three collections of animal omens are found.

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Partial matches: Lakshana, Kanya.

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Brihat Samhita (by N. Chidambaram Iyer)

Chapter 70 - On the features of women (kanyā-lakṣaṇa)

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