Elements of Hindu Iconography v1.c8.112

v1.c8.112

*Kapāla* denotes the human skull. It is used by Śiva as a receptacle for food and drink. Later on the word came to mean the cut half of an earthen pot, and then a basin or a bowl. In sculpture the *kapāla* occurs as a common spherical or oval bowl (see Pl. IV, fig. 8).