Panaptapan with demon depiction Buta-Kala

Panaptapan

Used when harvesting rice, to beat against the bottom part of a bundle of rice stalks held in the other hand, making them even. The front shows a kala image. The Sanskrit term kala mean literally “times”. In Indo-Javanese mythology, Kala is the god of destruction, husband to Durga. In Bali the demonic image of Kala represents the negative or dark aspect (bhuta kala), the physical and temporal, in an equilibrium which is necessary to maintain balance in the universe.