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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manybooks, post: 2887038, member: 8267&quot;]Phurbas (phur-bus) often incorporated iron, sometimes meteoric iron. Yours may have been assembled around a wooden shaft, which would explain the nails.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have found a reference to one very large phur-bu, published in a catalog of an exhibition of Tantric art at the Hayward Gallery in London in 1971. It is described as 80 inches in length - &quot;The huge phur-bu must have been the &#039;mother phur-bu&#039; from some monastery, probably standing in the main shrine as the repository of all the power distributed into individual phur-bus owned by particular monk-magicians.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="4">Tantra: Catalogue of a Exhibition, Held at Hayward Gallery, London, 30 September- 14 November 1971. Arts Council of Great Britain, 1971.</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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