The members of the house go round the pandal as a token of reverence, and take their seats close by.
The pandal is well decorated, and the floor below it is slightly raised and smoothed.
On this day, the pandal (marriage booth) is erected.
The girl, dressed and adorned in her best, is seated on a plank in a conspicuous part of the hut, or in a pandal (booth) put up for the time in front of it.
A pandal (booth) of green leaves is erected in the house, and a fillet of pungam (Pongamia glabra) and tamarind twigs is placed round her head.
A large pandal (booth) is erected in front of the house where the performance is to take place, and the boys below sixteen, who have been previously trained for it, are brought there.
In some places, the consent of the maternal uncle to a marriage is signified by his carrying the bride in his arms to the marriage pandal (booth).
They exchange garlands, and proceed to the marriage pandal (booth).
At the spot selected a pandal has been erected, and beneath it three or five bricks, representing the heroes (viralu), are set up.
The marriage ceremony takes place in a pandal (booth) on a raised or conspicuous place adorned with various figures or mandala.
A temporary pavilion orpandal had been erected in front of the house, and from the canopy long streamers of tender cocoanut leaves, bunches of plantains, and tender cocoanuts, with their husk on, were hung.
The bride and bridegroom stand beneath a pandal (arch) decorated with flowers, which is erected outside the home of the bridegroom, while men and women dance separately to the music of drum and fife.
On the third day, the widow goes round the pandal three times, and, entering within it, removes her tali string, and new clothes are thrown over her neck.
At a marriage among the Vekkiliyans, two huts are constructed in an open space outside the village, in front of which a pandal is erected, supported by twelve posts, and roofed with leafy twigs of the pongu tree and Mimusops hexandra.
They take place in a special pandal erected in the village, on either side of which are smaller pandals for the bride and bridegroom.
The Tsakala is asked to tie the dhornam to the pandal (marriage booth) or roof of the house, and he demands some paddy (unhusked rice) which is heaped up on the ground.
The husband's sister pounds the leaves in a mortar in a little shed or pandal in the front yard.
The ends of the twigs are tied together with thread, so that they represent a miniature pandal (booth).
After the marriage is settled, the girl is merely sent to the pandalor hut of the husband.
Preliminaries are arranged by go-betweens, and the chief of the numerous rites is the placing of a bracelet on the girl's upper arm under a pandal (booth) before the priest and the assembled relatives.
The corpse of a dead Toreya is placed in a pandal constructed of cocoanut leaves and stems of the milk-hedge (Euphorbia Tirucalli).
A pandal (booth) is set up, and closed in with cloths.
The corpse is placed within a pandal (booth) supported on four posts, which is erected in front of the house.
The distribution of pan-supari, and the tying of the dhornam to the pandal must be carried out by an assistant headman called Gatamdar.
The chittus are made on the spot at the time, in the marriage pandal erected for the occasion, the girl's uncle providing the gold.
In some cases she is carried from the house to the pandal by her karnavan or brother, who makes a number of pradakshinams round the pandal (usually 3 or 7) before he places her in her seat.
Some months after the death of one who has died an unnatural death, the skull is exhumed, and placed beneath a pandal (booth) in an open space near the village.
Early on the following morning, she is brought to the pandal (booth), which is erected in front of the house, and supported by four bamboo posts.
In front of the house a pandal (booth), supported by four Thespesia populnea posts, and roofed with twigs of Eugenia Jambolana, is erected.
They accordingly signified their consent to the matter, and fixed upon the nuptial day, and erected a pandal or temporary building in front of their house for the performance of the wedding ceremonies.
At the construction of the pandal (booth) the Pidakakkar or villagers render substantial aid.
The milk-post of the pandal is made of milk-hedge (Euphorbia Tirucalli).
A bench is placed within the marriage pandal (booth), and covered with clothes brought by the Madivali (washerman caste).
A man of the girl's family washes his feet, and he takes his seat in the pandalon the girl's right.
This is called pandal kizhikkal, and corresponds to the tali-kettu kalyanam of the other castes.
Tirumuttam is sweeping the temple courtyard, and natumuttam the erection of a small pandal (booth) in the courtyard of a Nambutiri's house, where oblations are offered to the departed spirit on the tenth day after death.
On the first day, a pandal (booth) is set up, and supported on twelve posts.
The corpse is bathed, and placed in a pandal made of four plantain trees, and four green leafy branches.
The next item is the preparation of the pandal or bower.
A pandal (booth) is erected, and the bridegroom sits under it side by side with a married female relative, and goes through a performance which is called Surige.
The bride is bathed and dressed in a new cloth, and the couple are then seated under a pandal (booth).
Beneath the pandal is now arranged a throne exactly similar to the one which was used on the occasion of the Pedda Tambulam.
Arrived at the marriage pandal (booth), they are welcomed by the bride's party.
Beneath a pandal (booth) there is a stone representing the god, marked with the namam, and decorated with burning lamps and painted earthen pots.
As a rule, the whole of the work in connection with the erection of the pandal is carried out by the elders, who receive in payment food and toddy.
From the day on which the pandal is erected until the wedding day, the contracting couple have to go through the nalagu ceremony separately or together.
At the conclusion of the feast, all assemble beneath the marriage pandal (booth), and betel is distributed in a recognised order of precedence, commencing with the guru and the god.
The couple then sit on a swing within the pandal (booth), and songs are sung.
On the day fixed for the marriage, all the Beri families left the place, after a male black dog had been tied to the milk-post of the marriage pandal (booth).
This is followed by the waving of arathi (coloured water), and circumambulation of the pandal by the pair, along with the ashtamangalam or eight auspicious things, viz.
At the homes of the bride and bridegroom, a pandal (booth) and dais are erected.
The pandal is usually decorated with mango and Eugenia Arnoltiana leaves.
Indeed it is asserted that a beggar who sees the size of the marriage pandal will be able to guess to a nicety the size of the present he will get.
According to another version of the legend, during the reign of the Cholas, a water-pandal was erected by the Beris, and the Komatis claimed the right to use it.
They enter the pandal and, after going round the articles contained therein five times, sit down on the plank.
On arrival, he is made to stand under the pandal which has been erected.
In the month of Magaram, the noombukarrans or mourners (who have lost relatives) begin to cook and eat in a pandal or shed set apart from the rest of the village, but otherwise go about their business as usual.
The marriage rites are celebrated beneath a pandal (booth) supported by twelve pillars.
They then sit in a swing on the pandal for a short time, and the ceremonies conclude with the customary waving of coloured water (arati) and distribution of betel.
For this, a pandal (booth) is erected by driving four posts into the ground, and putting over them a silk or cotton canopy.
The marriage pandal (booth) is generally covered with cocoanut leaves and leafy twigs of Eugenia Jambolana and Zizyphus Jujuba.
A pandal (marriage booth) was erected and tastefully decorated.
No marriage pandal is erected, and the bridegroom, or a female relation, ties the tali on the bride's neck within the house.
The Desari, who officiates, dons the sacred thread, and divides the pandal into two by means of a screen or curtain.
On the morning of the day fixed for the wedding, the bridegroom and his party go to the bride's hut, where they are welcomed, and seated on mats in a smallpandal put up in front of the hut.
They are then seated before a lamp and a heap of rice in a pandal (booth).
She stands in the pandal on a plank, on which there is some rice.
While this is being done, the bride joins the bridegroom, and the couple enter the pandal beneath a cloth held up to form a canopy in front thereof.
The bride is conducted to the home of the bridegroom, who meets her at the pandal (booth) erected in front of his house.
The erection of the first pillar of the marriage pandal (booth) is, as among other Hindu castes, an occasion for festivity.
The pandal (booth) is generally erected on the south side of the house.
The bride and her female relations fetch some earth, and a platform is made out of it in the marriage pandal (booth).
Once in several years, the girls of the village who have to go through this ceremony are brought to the house of one of the Uralans, where a pandal (booth) has been set up.
At the entrance to the marriage pandal (booth), the bride's brother pours water at the feet of the bridegroom, and her father leads him into the pandal.
The remainder of the mud is carried into the pandal by the contracting couple, who pour water over it, and throw it over those who are assembled.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pandal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
