{
 "schema": 1,
 "id": "kala-ta-diao",
 "level": "kind",
 "parent": null,
 "names": {
  "th": "กะลาตาเดียว",
  "roman": "kala ta diao",
  "en": "One-eyed coconut shell",
  "aliases": {
   "th": [
    "กะลามะพร้าวตาเดียว",
    "มะพร้าวตาเดียว",
    "กะลาตาเดียวแกะราหู"
   ],
   "roman": [
    "kala ta diew",
    "kala tah diao"
   ],
   "en": [
    "single-eyed coconut",
    "one-eyed coconut Rahu"
   ]
  }
 },
 "region": [
  "th-central",
  "th"
 ],
 "axes": {
  "class": "khong_thammachat",
  "functions": [
   "khum_khrong",
   "chok_lap"
  ],
  "materials": [
   "kala"
  ],
  "figures": [
   "natural"
  ]
 },
 "form": {
  "type": "natural",
  "shape_th": "กะลาที่มีตาเดียว — เก็บทั้งลูก ตัดเป็นแหวนหรือจี้ หรือแกะเป็นราหูอมจันทร์",
  "shape_en": "A shell with a single germination pore where every ordinary shell has three; kept whole, cut into a ring or pendant, or carved into Rahu swallowing the moon",
  "size_mm": null,
  "wearable_th": "แหวน จี้ หรือแผ่นราหูเลี่ยม",
  "wearable_en": "Ring, pendant, or a framed Rahu plaque",
  "notes_en": "Whole and uncarved it is the natural class. Carved into Rahu and inscribed it is also a Rahu, whose resident is a deva; the material axis warns that many กะลา listings are the carved ปลัดขิก."
 },
 "iconography": [
  {
   "th": "ตาเดียวตรงขั้ว",
   "en": "the single eye at the stem end"
  },
  {
   "th": "ราหูอมจันทร์ / อมอาทิตย์ ลงยันต์จันทรประภา สุริยประภา",
   "en": "Rahu swallowing the moon or the sun, with the Chanthaprapha and Suriyaprapha yantra (treatise)"
  }
 ],
 "origin": {
  "wat_slug": null,
  "wat_th": "วัดศีรษะทอง นครปฐม (ตามการ์ด)",
  "wat_en": "Wat Sisa Thong, Nakhon Pathom, per the reference card",
  "maker_th": "หลวงพ่อน้อย วัดศีรษะทอง (ตามการ์ด)",
  "maker_en": "Luang Pho Noi of Wat Sisa Thong, per the reference card — the Rahu-carving lineage the trade names",
  "era_th": "",
  "era_en": "",
  "place_th": "ภาคกลาง",
  "place_en": "Central Thailand",
  "first_attested": ""
 },
 "diagnostics": [
  {
   "th": "กะลาปกติมีสามตา ลูกนี้มีตาเดียว — ความผิดปกติคือของขลัง ไม่ได้แกะ",
   "en": "A normal shell has three eyes; this one has one. The anomaly is the charm; nothing was carved to make it",
   "source": "s:amulet-reference",
   "tier": "tradition"
  },
  {
   "th": "ตำราให้หากะลามะพร้าวตาเดียวแกะเป็นราหูอมจันทร์และอมอาทิตย์ ลงยันต์สองดวง",
   "en": "The treatise's Rahu recipe starts by finding a one-eyed shell and carving two Rahu from it — one swallowing the moon, one the sun — then inscribing the Chanthaprapha and Suriyaprapha yantra",
   "source": "s:ms6983",
   "tier": "catalogue"
  },
  {
   "th": "เนื้อกะลาแก่ด้วยการสึก ไม่ใช่สนิม ตาจริงเป็นรูงอกมีขอบใย รูเจาะทีหลังกลมเรียบ — เรื่องของมะพร้าว ไม่ใช่คำตัดสินชิ้นใด",
   "en": "Shell ages by wear, not patina. A true eye is a germination pore with a fibrous rim; a bored hole is round and clean — a statement about coconuts, not a verdict on a piece",
   "source": "s:vault-materials",
   "tier": "tradition"
  },
  {
   "th": "ในตลาดคำว่า กะลา ส่วนใหญ่คือปลัดขิกแกะ ต้องดูรูปทรง",
   "en": "In listings กะลา is mostly the carved palad khik; form settles it",
   "source": "s:vault-materials",
   "tier": "catalogue"
  },
  {
   "th": "การ์ดนับเป็นคำใหม่ของตลาดที่พบมากที่สุด ราคาต่ำและกว้าง",
   "en": "The card counts it the most-attested of the market's newer terms, at low retail prices; counts are rebuilt from catalog.db at build time",
   "source": "s:amulet-reference",
   "tier": "catalogue"
  }
 ],
 "confusable_with": [
  {
   "id": "khot-kala",
   "tell_th": "คดกะลาเป็นก้อนแข็งข้างในลูก · กะลาตาเดียวคือเปลือกที่มีตาเดียว",
   "tell_en": "A khot kala is a stone-hard nodule found inside the nut; a kala ta diao is the shell itself with one eye. Same tree, two different finds, both natural class."
  },
  {
   "id": "phra-rahu",
   "tell_th": "ราหูเป็นเทพที่บูชา ของแกะจากกะลาตาเดียวก็ได้ อย่างอื่นก็ได้ · กะลาตาเดียวทั้งลูกไม่มีรูป",
   "tell_en": "Phra Rahu is a venerated deva, carved from a one-eyed shell by preference but from anything at hand; the uncarved shell is a natural object with no resident. Once carved and inscribed the object is both."
  },
  {
   "id": "palad-khik",
   "tell_th": "ปลัดขิกแกะกะลาเป็นรูปอวัยวะเพศ · กะลาตาเดียวเก็บทั้งลูกหรือแกะราหู",
   "tell_en": "A palad khik carved from shell is a phallus; the one-eyed shell is kept whole or carved as Rahu. The material term กะลา covers both, which is why the search uses the compound."
  }
 ],
 "market": {
  "search": [
   "กะลาตาเดียว"
  ],
  "excludes": [],
  "tier": "retail"
 },
 "media": {
  "commons_categories": [],
  "commons_files": [],
  "wanted_en": "No free Commons file found on 2026-09-02 (Category:Rahu exists but is empty; coconut-charm searches return Papua New Guinea pieces). Wanted: the stem end of a one-eyed shell beside a normal three-eyed one, and a carved Rahu plaque, at one scale."
 },
 "images": [],
 "text": {
  "what_th": "กะลามะพร้าวที่มีตาเดียวแทนที่จะมีสาม ของหายากตามธรรมชาติ ไม่ใช่ของทำ เก็บทั้งลูกหรือแกะเป็นราหู ความหายากนั่นเองคือของขลัง",
  "what_en": "A coconut shell with a single eye where every normal shell has three — a natural anomaly, not a crafted thing, carved (often into Rahu) or kept whole. The rarity IS the charm.",
  "story_th": "ตำราสร้างพระราหูเล่าว่าฤๅษีสองตนบนเขายุคุนธรสร้างยันต์สุริยประภาและจันทรประภาเพื่อช่วยมนุษย์ยากไร้ คำสั่งแรกคือหากะลามะพร้าวตาเดียวแกะเป็นราหูอมจันทร์และอมอาทิตย์ ลงยันต์ บูชาข้าวตอกดอกไม้อย่างละ ๖ แก่อาทิตย์ อย่างละ ๑๕ แก่จันทร์ ทำวันเพ็ญหรือวันสูรย์คาธ จันทร์คาธ แล้วใส่ตลับทองและตลับเงิน ในตลาดสายวัดศีรษะทอง นครปฐม เป็นที่รู้จักที่สุด แหวนและจี้ที่ไม่แกะเป็นแบบที่พบมากและถูกกว่า",
  "story_en": "The treatise's Rahu chapter tells of two hermits on Mount Yugandhara who made the Suriyaprapha and Chanthaprapha yantra to relieve human poverty, and its first instruction is to find a one-eyed coconut shell and carve from it a Rahu swallowing the moon and a Rahu swallowing the sun. Offerings run to the planets' numbers — six of each for the sun, fifteen for the moon — the work is done on a full moon or an eclipse day, and the finished plaques go into gold and silver cases. The trade's best-known lineage is Wat Sisa Thong in Nakhon Pathom; uncarved rings and pendants are the commoner, cheaper form.",
  "keeping_th": "ไม่มีผู้อยู่ ไม่ต้องเลี้ยง ถ้าแกะเป็นราหูก็บูชาแบบราหู",
  "keeping_en": "Nobody home, nothing owed. Once carved into Rahu it takes Rahu's veneration — the deva class, not the shell's; the tradition's black offerings on Rahu's days are the Rahu record's business."
 },
 "sources": [
  "s:holding-key",
  "s:vault-classes",
  "s:vault-materials",
  "s:vault-functions",
  "s:ms6983",
  "s:amulet-reference",
  "s:tradition"
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "default": {
   "tier": "tradition",
   "source": "s:tradition"
  },
  "fields": {
   "axes": {
    "tier": "catalogue",
    "source": "s:vault-classes"
   },
   "text.what_en": {
    "tier": "catalogue",
    "source": "s:holding-key"
   },
   "text.keeping_en": {
    "tier": "catalogue",
    "source": "s:vault-classes"
   },
   "market": {
    "tier": "catalogue",
    "source": "s:holding-key"
   },
   "text.story_en": {
    "tier": "catalogue",
    "source": "s:ms6983",
    "note": "bilingual.md lines 2259–2303 (printed pp. 52–53); Wat Sisa Thong: s:amulet-reference"
   },
   "origin": {
    "tier": "tradition",
    "source": "s:amulet-reference"
   }
  }
 },
 "confidence": "medium",
 "needs_verification": true,
 "updated": "2026-09-02",
 "class_facts": {
  "key": "khong_thammachat",
  "term": "เครื่องรางธรรมชาติ",
  "roman": "khrueang rang thammachat",
  "en_gloss": "natural talisman",
  "resident": "none",
  "upkeep": "none",
  "provenance_sensitivity": "low",
  "definition": "Power inherent in a rare natural object rather than conferred by rite: เหล็กไหล (leklai, a living metal), กะลาตาเดียว (a one-eyed coconut), certain woods, stones and animal parts. Impersonal but NOT consecration-based — a third thing, neither Buddha-amulet nor spirit-vessel.",
  "confidence": "medium"
 },
 "function_terms": [
  {
   "key": "khum_khrong",
   "term": "คุ้มครอง",
   "roman": "khum khrong",
   "en": "general protection, watching over",
   "definition": "Unspecified guardianship. **A holding pen, not a category** — when a source says only คุ้มครอง it usually has not said which of the specific functions above it means. Treat its presence as a gap to close, not an answer."
  },
  {
   "key": "chok_lap",
   "term": "โชคลาภ",
   "roman": "chok lap",
   "en": "luck and windfall",
   "definition": "Fortune arriving from outside — lottery, gifts, unexpected gain. โชค is the luck, ลาภ the thing that turns up because of it."
  }
 ],
 "material_terms": [
  {
   "key": "kala",
   "term": "กะลา",
   "roman": "kala",
   "en": "coconut shell",
   "definition": "Coconut shell, most often the single-eyed shell (กะลาตาเดียว) carved and inscribed. High occurrence in the corpus. Note that many กะลา hits are the carved ปลัดขิก form — cross-check the class axis, which deliberately leaves ปลัดขิก unassigned."
  }
 ],
 "region_terms": [
  {
   "key": "th-central",
   "th": "ภาคกลาง",
   "en": "Central Thailand (Bangkok, Ayutthaya basin)"
  },
  {
   "key": "th",
   "th": "ทั่วประเทศไทย",
   "en": "Thailand, not regionally specific"
  }
 ],
 "market_stats": {
  "listings": 267,
  "priced": 267,
  "median_thb": 199.0,
  "typical_thb": [
   69.0,
   580.0
  ],
  "source": "s:catalog-db",
  "tier": "catalogue",
  "note": "title matches only; delete-then-test excludes applied"
 },
 "primary_image": null,
 "tier_labels": {
  "en": {
   "catalogue": "Catalogue — checkable against the corpus (catalog.db, a transcribed treatise)",
   "cited": "Cited — a named external source, linked",
   "tradition": "Tradition — general knowledge of the wider tradition, hedged",
   "inference": "Inference — this project's own reasoning from the above",
   "field": "Field — someone stood there"
  },
  "th": {
   "catalogue": "จากคลัง",
   "cited": "อ้างอิงแหล่ง",
   "tradition": "ตามประเพณี",
   "inference": "อนุมาน",
   "field": "พบเห็นเอง"
  }
 }
}