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In English, the shell of this species is known as the "divine conch" or the "sacred chank". It may also be simply called a "chank" or conch. There are two forms of the shanka: a more common form that is "right-turning" or dextral in pattern, and a very rarely encountered form of reverse coiling or "left-turning" or sinistral. [9]
Conch shells are sometimes used as decoration, as decorative planters, and in cameo making. [19] [20] In the Aztec culture, the conch played an important role in rituals, war, art, music, mythology, festivals, and even the calendar. [21] In India, some artisans make souvenirs, deity idols and other crafts by carving natural conch shells by ...
The conch is used by Buddhist monks for religious purposes. Its use goes back at least [citation needed] 1,000 years, and it is still used today for some rituals, such as the omizutori (water drawing) portion of the Shuni-e rites at the Tōdai-ji in Nara. Each Shugendō school has his own conch shell melodies.
The painting is executed in a mix of styles, with both very fine and broad brushstrokes. Eik Kahng, in an essay comparing Vallayer-Coster's technique to Chardin's notes that the level of detail in the flowers is "almost clinically precise", but the conch shell is painted with broad unblended brush strokes. [6]
Sea Shell from the Indian Ocean, Arabian Sea and bay of Bengal. The true Lakshmi shankha is a rare sinistral Turbinella conch shell from the Indian Ocean, usually from Turbinella pyrum. Other right-turning sea snail shells are often mistakenly sold and worshiped in place of the genuine shankha.
Macrostormbus costatus dorsal view of adult shell. Colored drawing of a Aliger costatus from Kiener, 1843. Macrostrombus costatus, formerly known as Strombus costatus and Lobatus costatus, or commonly known as the milk conch, is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Strombidae, the true conchs. [2]
A drawing depicting the shell of Lobatus raninus from Index Testarum Conchyliorum (1742).. The maximum recorded shell length is 121 mm [2] or up to 130 mm. [3] Like other species in the same genus, Lobatus raninus has a robust, somewhat heavy and solid shell, with a distinct stromboid notch.
Each divine being is assigned special shapes, colors, and/or identifying objects, such as lotus, conch-shell, thunderbolt, and begging bowl. All sacred images are made to exact specifications that have remained remarkably unchanged for centuries.