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Record W4415741725 · doi:10.18732/hssa128

Early Indian Palmistry

2025· article· en· W4415741725 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Kenneth G. Zysk

Bibliographic record

VenueHistory of Science in South Asia · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicIndian and Buddhist Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsNinthRepresentation (politics)SanskritFeature (linguistics)Line drawings

Abstract

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This paper offers a critical edition, translation, and notes to the chapter titled Pāṇilekhā or "the lines on the hands", from the Śārdūlakarṇāvadāna. It represents an early Indian formulation of palmistry that entered the texts in the latter half of the ninth century CE. It presents thirty-four verses in varying metres, suggesting compilation from diverse origins and dealing with omens and prognostication. Notably, it incorporates astrological elements, a feature not common in other early palmistry collections until much later. The paper includes critical remarks on the Sanskrit used and discusses different manuscript versions, aiming for an accurate representation of the original. Innovative is the use of more recent hand drawings in the understand of ancient text. Appendices provide translations of later palmistry texts like the Hastasañjīvana and Samudrikatilaka, along with historical illustrations of hand diagrams.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.781
Threshold uncertainty score0.998

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.005
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.025
GPT teacher head0.218
Teacher spread0.194 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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