CHEIROMANCY, the art of foretelling the events of life by the lineaments of the hand, derived its name from the Greek word chciros, the palm, and umnteia, to foretell, whence it has been vulgarly called Palmistry as it is named in a recent Act of Parliament to forbid its practice for gain or reward. Where it began and how far does its origin date to has for long has been a topic of debate which is why, we will not be debating about the history of Palmistry. In Coleman's Mythology of the Hindoos, p. 202, it is written: "On the Buddha's foot is the mark called the 'chakravarti,' wheel or discus, which should have been on the palm of the hand, by which the sages at his birth divined that he would rise to considerable eminence." He says (p. 19): "Various data have been assigned to the period of Buddha's existence. The most correct seems to be about 550 B.C., whence, as the sages practised cheiromancy at Buddha's birth, its existence must have been much earlier known among the Indians. For this reason, we will be experimenting on the Indian Palmistry or ''Hasta Samudrika Jyotish Shastra'', as it is called in Sanskrit.