Product Description

Balinese Holy Water Holder 1

Material: Cempaka Wood, hand painted, glass bottles
Style: Bali
Size: Height 18 cm, 40 cm (to top of the bottles), Length 21.5 cm, Width 9.5 cm
Order Number: MHSBH9

To hold  holy water, arak and brem, used in all Balinese Hindu ceremonies, called a Tetabuhan. The bottles are held by a white Nandi, Siwa’s mount.

The Sanskrit word Nandi means happy, joy, and satisfaction, the properties of the divine guardian of Siwa. Almost all Siwa temples display stone images of a seated Nandi, generally facing the main shrine and usually depicted as a bull.