Castes and Tribes of Southern India/Pandamuttu

by Edgar Thurston

Pandamuttu. — A sub-division of Palli, The name is made by Winslow to mean a number of torches arranged so as to represent an elephant. The Pallis, however, explain it as referring to the pile of pots, which reaches to the top of the marriage pandal (pandal, booth, mutti, touching). The lowest pot is decorated with figures of elephants and horses.