Palmistry shows certain signs and marks regarding marriage, love affairs, friendship, divorce and widowhood described by European writers, are absent from Indian hands. The Hindu school of Palmistry calls the main lines by different names. For instance, the line of Heart is called Ayu Rekha and Line of Life, the line of Head the Matri Rekha or Mother Line. The indications of the lines given by Hindu writers nevertheless resemble in broad principles the interpretation of Western authors. According to Cheiro and St. Germain, the shape and type of the hand have to be borne in mind in order to determine the social position of the subject, and the, lines alone are not as important as it has been thought so far.

Palmistry can prove useful to physicians in the treatment of patients; to parents concerned about the future of their children to teachers planning programmers of instruction; and to men and women who contemplate matrimony. Indian Universities should introduce Palmistry as a subject of study. This would tend to popularise it, so that subsequently it could be made a compulsory subject to be taught with Child Psychology, to pupil-teachers in Normal Schools and University Training Colleges. This may sound novel and startling, but it is a fact that in Ancient India the guru was at once priest, teacher, and palmist or astrologer.

Palmistry stress the fact that hand-reading enables them to forecast well in advance the state of health of a person, as well as the state of mind that might be responsible for it. In India, among the Hindus, parents become extremely anxious about the future lot of their daughters, as soon as they attain puberty. In this direction Palmistry can render valuable assistance by providing a pair on the brink of marriage with a clear breakdown of their nature. It is possible for an astrologer or palmist to forecast an event, seeing that the element of free-will is likely to cause changes in the markings on the hand. Palmist authorities answer variously. Desbarroles, Cheiro, St. Germain, Benham, the Frenchman, declared that it is not possible to read the occurrence of events marked on the hands more than five years in advance.