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    Goldstücker Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    p. 95, col. 1.
    anupūrvapāṇilekha Bahuvr. m. (-khaḥ) Whose lines of the hands

    are regular (acc. to an interpretation: extended); one of

    the eighty anuvyañjana q. v. (comp. the two preced.), accord.

    to the Buddhists. E. anupūrva and pāṇi-lekhā.

    Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (2nd ed.)

    p. 35, col. 2.
    anu-pūrva—pāṇi-lekha mfn. having regular hair, regularly shaped limbs, regular teeth, a regularly shaped navel, regular lines in the hands (all these are epithets given to Buddha, some of them also to Mahāvīra), Buddh. & Jain.