Pana is another variety of dancing which is related to religious theatre in Kerala, and though not much different from the preceding, it is technically held to be different. Two types are prevalent: it may be an individual votive offering, in which case there is only one Komaram taking part in it the Komaram associated with the temple in which the performance is conducted.

It might also be a communal or a village function; in which case all the Komarams of all the Bhagavati shrines in the neighbourhood must take part in it. Dressed in their usual weird habit, they conduct in unison a very queer kind of dance to the accompaniment of the instrumental music of the type called Asuravadyas.

As a third sub-variety of the same, may be mentioned another similar dance in front of a Bhagavati shrine conducted by Katupottans, a class of people included amongst the lower orders of Nairs, who become possessed under the influence of alcoholic drink. This Paisacika variety, be it noted, is run as a village offering for the purpose of getting rain, when it is inordinately delayed an evidently powerful clue as regards the Dravidian origin of these and other sirniar types of entertainments conducted in the name of Bhagavati.

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