Use your purple Celestial Sun carved stone bowl to burn smudging herbs like white sage (sold separately), or place white sand included, inside your bowl, as a protective heat layer to protect your furniture, when burning charcoal resins, or use as a stick and cone incense burner, allowing ash to fall into the sand. It can also be used as an altar offering bowl, prayer or meditation tool (non-impervious to water), allowing it to catch the ashes of your incenses and smudging herbs. Stunning craftsmanship, perfect addition for any altar.  Made of polished soapstone. Handcrafted. Minor flaws in workmanship are not considered a defect. 4" in diameter. Made in India.