kitTakrut

ตะกรุด · takrut

The same yant, rolled in metal, worn at the waist.

19th century artist · Public domain

What it is

A sheet of metal — often copper, sometimes lead, silver or gold — inscribed with a yantra and rolled into a tube, then bound with cord and worn on the body.

The long version

The same syllables in the same script as a tattoo, on a surface that can be taken off, given away or buried. Thai accounts of amulets list the takrut among the things a warrior carried into battle before the moulded Buddha image took over that job — alongside the prajiat.

Inference — the family is what matters. Yant on skin, yant on cloth at the arm, yant in metal at the waist, yant braided into the cord on the head. A fighter walking to the ring is usually wearing three of the four, and they are one practice, not four superstitions.

Connected to

• Sak yant The same thing on skin.
• The armbands The same thing on cloth.
• The mongkhon The same thing on cord.

Named here by

• The armbands The same yantra, in metal.
• Sak yant The same thing, in metal.

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