Free palm reading · Hasta SamudrikaThe map you were born holding.हस्त रेखा

What this page does

Photograph your open palm and this page measures it. It finds the hand in the picture, straightens it, locates the palm between the finger creases and the wrist, and traces the four major lines — heart, head, life and fate. It then measures each one: how long it runs, how far it curves, how deep it is cut, and where it ends, all in units of your own palm's width, so the numbers do not depend on how close the camera was or how big your hands are.

Those measurements are real. What is done with them afterwards is traditional palmistry, which is a folk art and not a science. The page keeps the two clearly separated, tells you how confident it is about each measurement, and lets you correct anything it read wrongly.

Read in both traditions

Every line is read twice. Once in the Western manner most palmistry sites use — and once as Samudrika Shastra, the Indian tradition, names it. These do not correspond the way almost everyone assumes. The Skanda Purana names three of the lines in a single verse, as the gotra, dravya and āyu rekhā:

• The line curving round the thumb — the Western life line — is the गोत्र-रेखा (gotra-rekhā) or कुल-रेखा, the line of lineage, always read together with the region of Śukra it encloses.
• The line across the middle — the Western head line — is the द्रव्य-रेखा (dravya-rekhā), the line of substance or wealth, on the stated reasoning that acquiring and holding anything depends on the mind and the disposition.
• The line below the fingers — the Western heart line — is the आयु-रेखा (āyu-rekhā). This is the surprise: in the Indian sources it is the heart line, not the line round the thumb, that is read for length of life.
• The line rising from the wrist — the fate line — is the ऊर्ध्व-रेखा (ūrdhva-rekhā), of which Samudra Rishi's verse says that it gives gold, jewels and standing, provided it is unbroken.

The readings draw on the Samudrika tradition as collected in Gopesh Kumar Ojha's Hasta-Rekhā-Vijñāna (Delhi, 1956), which gathers the relevant passages from the Garuda, Bhavishya and Skanda Puranas, the Vivekavilāsa, the Prayoga Pārijāta, and the works attributed to Samudra Rishi, Varahamihira, Nārada and Garga.

योग — the lines in combination

The classical writers repeat on nearly every question that the fruit of a sign changes with the combination it stands in, never the sign alone. Reading each line in isolation is therefore only half the method, and it is also why most online palm readings feel generic. This page reads the pairings too: a head line clear of the life line and running long is given a different reading from either sign on its own, and correcting one measurement changes which combinations apply.

Your photo is never uploaded

This is the part worth being precise about, because every other site that offers a palm reading from a photograph asks you to send that photograph to someone. This one does not, and cannot — there is no server behind it to receive one.

• The image is decoded into memory inside the page, measured there, and released. It is never transmitted.
• Nothing is written to local storage, session storage, IndexedDB, or disk.
• The diagram shown with your reading is drawn from the traced outline and lines, not from the photograph — it contains no pixels of your image, which is why you can discard the photo and keep the reading.
• A Discard the photo now button releases it immediately, and closing or reloading the tab wipes everything left in memory.

Getting a photograph the page can read

• Open your hand flat, fingers straight and slightly spread, palm facing the camera.
• Bright, even light — daylight near a window is ideal. Avoid flash, which flattens the creases into invisibility.
• Fill the frame with the hand, from fingertips to wrist, against a plain background.
• Hold steady. Blur costs more than resolution here; the lines are found by contrast, not by megapixels.

Traditionally the dominant hand is read for the life as it is being lived and the other for what was given at birth. You can set both above.

What this is not

Palmistry has no scientific basis for predicting events, and nothing here is a claim of fact about you or your future. The classical Indian sources read the āyu-rekhā as a count of years; this page does not pass that count on to you, both because a web page is in no position to tell a stranger such a thing from one photograph and because the tradition itself forbids it — the authorities are emphatic that a span must never be pronounced from a single line. The length of a line says nothing about the length of a life. This reading is offered for reflection and entertainment. It is not medical, psychological, legal or financial advice.

The same tradition ends where this page ends: the hand records tendency, not sentence. Karma is what makes the fortune the line only reports.

Your birth chart says the same kind of thing

Palmistry and Jyotish have always been read together in India. If you have not already, generate your free Janam Kundali — Rashi chart, all sixteen divisional charts, the full Vimshottari Dasha timeline, yoga detection and Ashtakvarga — and read the two side by side. Like this page, it computes entirely in your browser and stores nothing.