Castes and Tribes of Southern India/Pathinettan

by Edgar Thurston

Pathinettan.— The Pathinettan or eighteen are carpenters in Malabar, who "are said to be the descendants of the smiths who remained to attend to the repairs to the eighteen temples, when the rest of the community fled to Ceylon, as related in the tradition of the origin of the Tiyans".†^[1]

1. † Gazetteer of the Malabar district.