bowl-relic presented to Buddha by the guardian deities of the four quarters of the world. It is said it was made of the clay of blue sapphire, and was afterwards brought from India and placed as a sacred relic in a Dāgoba on the border of the Mahaweli ganga near Kandy.
Carter, Charles. A Sinhalese-English dictionary. Colombo: The "Ceylon Observer" Printing Works; London: Probsthain & Co., 1924.