LAMPS
Lamps are important ritual accessories in the Indian tradition. The nine essential brahmanic forms of worship include lamp offerings to deities.

Large standing metal lamps with a central shaft fitted with lamp-plates and multiple bowls for oil and wicks, were sometimes topped by a bird or an elephant.

Deepalakshmi is a celestial female attendant holding a singular lamp in both hands.

Simple round lamp bowls of copper with an elongated trench for the wick, pre-suppose the form of the common Indian earthern lamp