Castes and Tribes of Southern India/Bandāri

by Edgar Thurston

Bandāri.— Bandāri, denoting apparently the shrub Dodondcza viscosa, is an exogamous sept of Oddē. It further occurs, in the sense of a temple treasurer, as an exogamous sept of Dēvāngas and Padma Sālēs, for whom the Bandāri acts as caste messenger. It is also the name of the assistant to the headman, or Pattakar, of the Okkiliyans, a title of Konkani Brāhmans, and a synonym of Kelasis.