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With nails resembling the red velvet mite original: "indragopa" — a bright scarlet insect that emerges during the monsoon, used here to describe a healthy, vibrant red color, one becomes a ruler of the earth.
With copper-colored nails, men in this world obtain [the knowledge of] medicine bhaiṣajya: the art of healing or pharmacy.
37 With curved nails... they obtain power and are fortunate... with glossy, elevated, and copper-colored nails, they become kings.
38 ...Such is the description of the characteristics of the nails.
[With calves] resembling those of a deer mṛga: deer or antelope, one is long-lived.
Those with thick calves are like tigers; tiger-like calves are the givers of wealth and fame.
Hairy calves bestow poverty dāridrya: a state of lack or misfortune.
He whose calves are like a jackal’s will be granted wealth; [yet] those without [good] calves are personally [shunned by] Lakshmi The goddess of wealth and good fortune and are eternally devoid of luck.
Men with thick calves constantly enjoy prosperity.
Those men who have camel-like calves are eternally devoid of luck. 42
As for the men who have crow-like calves, one should point to a lack of sovereignty and [the presence of] sorrow...