Kapala with stand, metal inlay decorative half-skull - RITUAL ITEM

Glad to be able to offer some craft-items from Nepal. These are handmade and smaller imperfections can occur.

A kapala (Sanskrit for "skull") is a skull cup used as a ritual implement (bowl) in both Hindu Tantra and Tibetan Buddhist Tantra (Vajrayana). Especially in Tibetan Buddhism, kapalas are often carved or elaborately mounted with precious metals and jewels.

'Kapala' is a loan word into Tibetan from Sanskrit kapāla referring to the skull or forehead, usually of a human. By association, it refers to the ritual skullcup fashioned out of a human cranium. The Sanskrit word, in turn, was derived from Proto Indo-Aryan *kapā́las, and descended from Proto-Indo-European *káp-ōl- (cup, bowl), from *kap- (to seize, to hold).

!!!No human bone are used in these!!!

This listing is for the exact item picture in these pictures. 

Lenght at tthe longest: 16cm

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