The story of another bowl that leads to Kabul
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A sculpture believed to depict the worship of the Buddha's Alms Bowl. Pic courtesy Wikimedia Commons
The Indian tradition has it that the bowl was given to the people of Vesali by the Buddha when he passed through the city on his way to Kusinara. King Kanishka is said to have taken it to Peshawar and in the Islamic period it was taken from mosque to mosque and palace to palace till it came to Kabul.
This very large bowl, greenish-grey granite, with a diameter of about 1.75 metres, a height of about three ¾ of a metre, and a thickness of about 18 cm at its rim, however in 2014 was declared by Indian archaeologists to be not what it claims to be. Nonetheless some opine it was a bowl in a monastery used communally – probably used by the Gautama as well.
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