{
 "schema": 1,
 "id": "khot-kala",
 "level": "kind",
 "parent": null,
 "names": {
  "th": "คดกะลา",
  "roman": "khot kala",
  "en": "Coconut-shell concretion",
  "aliases": {
   "th": [
    "คด",
    "คต",
    "คดมะพร้าว"
   ],
   "roman": [
    "khod kala",
    "kod kala"
   ],
   "en": [
    "coconut bezoar",
    "khot stone"
   ]
  }
 },
 "region": [
  "th"
 ],
 "axes": {
  "class": "khong_thammachat",
  "functions": [
   "khum_khrong",
   "khong_kraphan"
  ],
  "materials": [
   "kala"
  ],
  "figures": [
   "natural"
  ]
 },
 "form": {
  "type": "natural",
  "shape_th": "ก้อนแข็งคล้ายหินที่พบเกิดในลูกมะพร้าว เก็บทั้งก้อน เลี่ยมหรือใส่ตลับ",
  "shape_en": "A stone-hard nodule found grown inside a coconut, kept as found; capped or cased for wearing",
  "size_mm": null,
  "wearable_th": "ใส่ตลับหรือเลี่ยมห้อยคอ",
  "wearable_en": "Cased or capped at the neck",
  "notes_en": "The search term is carried only as the compound คดกะลา: bare คด was 98% noise (โชคดี, โบราณคดี, คดี, พระโคดม). The treatise spells the family คต."
 },
 "iconography": [
  {
   "th": "ไม่มีรูป — ก้อนตามธรรมชาติ",
   "en": "no figure; a natural nodule"
  }
 ],
 "origin": {
  "wat_slug": null,
  "wat_th": "",
  "wat_en": "",
  "maker_th": "",
  "maker_en": "",
  "era_th": "",
  "era_en": "",
  "place_th": "ทั่วไป",
  "place_en": "Thailand generally",
  "first_attested": ""
 },
 "diagnostics": [
  {
   "th": "ตำราจัด คต ไว้ในของทนสิทธิ์ที่เกิดเองตามธรรมชาติ ร่วมกับเขี้ยว เขา และแร่ธาตุ — เครื่องรางชนิดแรกที่มนุษย์ใช้",
   "en": "The treatise's own classification puts คต among the self-potent natural objects (ของทนสิทธิ์) beside fangs, horns and minerals — the first amulets humans used, it says",
   "source": "s:ms6983",
   "tier": "catalogue"
  },
  {
   "th": "คดเป็นตระกูล ตั้งชื่อตามที่พบ: คดกะลา คดหิน คดหอย คดปลวก",
   "en": "คด is a family named by host — coconut, stone, shell, termite mound and more; the trade holds that the host names the virtue",
   "source": "s:tradition",
   "tier": "tradition"
  },
  {
   "th": "ก้อนแข็ง หนัก ผิวด้านหรือมัน ไม่มีรอยแกะ",
   "en": "Hard, dense, matte or glassy, with no tool marks; a nodule that shows carving is something else",
   "source": "s:holding-key",
   "tier": "catalogue"
  },
  {
   "th": "ก้อนคดที่ยังมีเศษกะลาติดอยู่บอกที่มาของตัวเอง",
   "en": "A nodule still carrying a fragment of shell carries its own provenance; the material axis dates shell by wear",
   "source": "s:vault-materials",
   "tier": "inference"
  },
  {
   "th": "คำสองตัวอักษรค้นเดี่ยวไม่ได้ — ๔๗๔ จาก ๔๘๔ ที่พบเป็นคำอื่น จึงใช้แต่คำประสม",
   "en": "The bare word cannot be searched: 474 of 484 corpus hits were other words, so only the compound is carried",
   "source": "s:vault-classes",
   "tier": "catalogue"
  }
 ],
 "confusable_with": [
  {
   "id": "kala-ta-diao",
   "tell_th": "กะลาตาเดียวคือเปลือกที่มีตาเดียว · คดกะลาคือก้อนแข็งข้างใน",
   "tell_en": "The one-eyed shell is the husk with a single eye; the khot is a stone-hard nodule from inside the nut. Same tree, two finds."
  },
  {
   "id": "lek-lai",
   "tell_th": "เหล็กไหลเป็นโลหะดำมันวาวจากถ้ำ · คดไม่มีประกายโลหะ",
   "tell_en": "Lek lai is a lustrous dark metal claimed from caves; a khot has no metallic sheen and a named plant or animal host."
  },
  {
   "id": "bia-kae",
   "tell_th": "เบี้ยแก้เป็นหอยเบี้ยบรรจุปรอทโดยพระ — ของทำ · คดเป็นของพบ",
   "tell_en": "A bia kae is a cowrie a monk fills and seals — made; a khot is found. Both small, hard and cased."
  }
 ],
 "market": {
  "search": [
   "คดกะลา"
  ],
  "excludes": [],
  "tier": "unknown"
 },
 "media": {
  "commons_categories": [],
  "commons_files": [],
  "wanted_en": "No free Commons file found on 2026-09-02. Wanted: a nodule beside the split coconut it came from, with a scale."
 },
 "images": [],
 "text": {
  "what_th": "ก้อนแข็งเหมือนหินที่พบเกิดในลูกมะพร้าว หนึ่งในตระกูลคด — หินที่ไม่น่าจะมีในสิ่งมีชีวิต เก็บทั้งก้อนตามที่พบ ฤทธิ์อยู่ในตัว ไม่ต้องเลี้ยง",
  "what_en": "A stone-hard concretion found grown inside a coconut — one of the คด family of impossible stones found in living things. Kept whole as found; power inherent, none to feed.",
  "story_th": "ตำราไม่มีสูตรทำคด เพราะทำไม่ได้ มันเกิดเอง คำนำของตำราจัด คต ไว้กับเขี้ยว เขา แร่ธาตุ เป็นของทนสิทธิ์ที่มนุษย์ใช้ก่อนของทำทั้งหมด วงการเรียกคดตามที่พบ คดกะลาคือคดในมะพร้าว ถือกันว่าคงกระพันและคุ้มครอง — เป็นคำอ้างของประเพณี ตำราว่าแต่เพียงว่ามีฤทธิ์ในตัว",
  "story_en": "There is no recipe for a khot and cannot be: it is found, not made. The treatise's preface files คต with fangs, horns and minerals as the self-potent natural objects people carried before anyone inscribed anything. The trade names each by its host — a khot kala grew inside a coconut — and holds it for protection and hardness against blades; those functions are the tradition's claim, not the treatise's, which says only that the thing has power in itself.",
  "keeping_th": "ไม่มีผู้อยู่ ไม่ต้องเลี้ยง เก็บตามที่พบ",
  "keeping_en": "Nobody home, nothing owed. Keep it as it was found; safe to adopt with no history at all, since it never had a maker."
 },
 "sources": [
  "s:holding-key",
  "s:vault-classes",
  "s:vault-materials",
  "s:vault-functions",
  "s:ms6983",
  "s:tradition"
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "default": {
   "tier": "tradition",
   "source": "s:tradition"
  },
  "fields": {
   "axes": {
    "tier": "catalogue",
    "source": "s:vault-classes",
    "note": "functions are the trade's claim: tradition"
   },
   "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",
    "note": "compound only; bare คด is 98% noise per vault classes.md"
   },
   "text.story_en": {
    "tier": "catalogue",
    "source": "s:ms6983",
    "note": "bilingual.md lines 943–944 (printed p. 9), the treatise's own classification"
   }
  }
 },
 "confidence": "low",
 "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": "khong_kraphan",
   "term": "คงกระพัน",
   "roman": "khong kraphan",
   "en": "invulnerability to blades",
   "definition": "The body cannot be cut or pierced. Classically paired with ชาตรี in the martial compound คงกระพันชาตรี. Says nothing about firearms — that is มหาอุด."
  }
 ],
 "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",
   "th": "ทั่วประเทศไทย",
   "en": "Thailand, not regionally specific"
  }
 ],
 "market_stats": {
  "listings": 10,
  "priced": 10,
  "median_thb": 169.0,
  "typical_thb": [
   150.0,
   199.0
  ],
  "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"
  }
 }
}