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A round-bellied covered vase with a narrow neck, drawn sealed rather than open.
Also known as: Bumpa, Vase of treasure, Kalasha
The treasure vase, or bumpa, is one of the eight auspicious symbols: a round-bellied vessel with a narrow neck, a lid and often a spray of jewels or a plant emerging from the top. It stands for inexhaustible abundance — a vessel that cannot be emptied. It is also a real object: filled treasure vases are prepared, sealed and placed under shrines, buried in the ground or set in buildings, which is why one is occasionally found by somebody who has no idea what it is.
Stands for inexhaustible abundance: a sealed vessel that cannot be emptied, which is why the lid rather than the contents is the essential part of the drawing.
Contexts: Religion
Exists as a physical object as well as an emblem. Treasure vases are filled, consecrated and sealed, then placed beneath a shrine, buried at a site or built into a structure — so an unopened vessel found in those positions is likely to be one.
A wide jar whose body is drawn as a near-circle, narrowing to a short neck and closed with a domed lid, with a small spray of jewels or leaves rising from the top.
One of the eight auspicious symbols.