An autochthonous community, the Saora predominantly live within the territorial confines of Odisha along with proclaiming its outright rich cultural legacy and personality endowed with crafts. The Saora people craft several kinds and shapes of pots and jars, out of which the jar-shaped serrated-edged lamp comes as the most significant and distinctive. It is popularly known as "The Serrated Light of the Saora." Lights like these are quite common in several Otara families. Beyond being a mere functional object, this lamp assumes the more important phase of culture and spirituality in the Saora.
Derived from clay locally available, the entire structure takes a typical ornamented pot form with an entangled serrated rim. The serrated edge gives the typical touch to Saora craftsmanship and serves its purposes besides increasing aesthetic values during the religious and cultural ceremony. It serves for storing oil or any flammable substance and usually lights on important community rituals, celebrations, and rites of passage. The light in this lamp is considered holy in particular as it is symbolizing purity, presence of God, and the banishment of darkness. Lighting the lamps in ceremonies is construed in Saora culture as an invitation for blessings and protecting from God. The serrated edges clearly denote that the community is very much attached to nature and reveres various natural elements, such that amidst its functional use, carrying in itself symbolic values in daily life. Thus, it is by all such standards what is Serrated Light of the Saora, an apparent object but very much an intimate part of the spiritual and cultural identity.