Khaṭvāṅga

Khatvanga
Khatvanga
Devanagariखट्वाङ्ग
Sanskrit transliterationKhaṭvāṅga

A khaṭvāṅga (Sanskrit: खट्वाङ्ग) is a long, studded staff or club with a skull at the top. The weapon is found in the iconography of Tantric Hindu as well as Tibetian Vajrayana Buddhism. It is variiously described as "a skull - topped club, a skull - mounted trident, or a trident - staff on which three skulls are impaled".

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