[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Physical](https://indike.org/pramana/inp) › [Artefacts](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact) › [Victoria and Albert Museum, London](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.vam) › Votive bowl # Votive bowl The ritual bowl may have been made for Buddhist use. It is in the form of an octagonal cup, supplied on the rim with eight small hemispherical oil-pans, and resting in the calyx of an 8-petalled lotus-flower. The lotus is upheld by elephants and cobras alternately arranged. (one of the elephants being broken). - **Kind:** artefact - **Date:** 500–600 CE --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.vam.im-9-1924](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.vam.im-9-1924) · Pramāṇa