Other titles, "indicating authority, bravery, and superiority," assumed by Pallis are Nayakar, Varma, Padaiyachi (head of an army), Kandar, Chera, Chola, Pandya, Nayanar, Udaiyar, Samburayar, etc. [17] Still further titles are Pillai, Reddi, Goundan, and Kavandan. Some say that they belong to the Chola race, and that, as such, they should be called Chembians. [18] Iranya Varma, the name of one of the early Pallava kings, was returned as their caste by certain wealthy Pallis, who also gave themselves the title of Solakanar (descendant of Chola kings) at the census, 1901. In reply to a question by the Census Superintendent, 1891, as to the names of the sub-divisions of the caste, it was stated that "the Vanniyans are either of the solar and lunar or Agnikula race, or Ruthra Vanniyar, Krishna Vanniyar, Samboo Vanniyar, Brahma Vanniyar, and Indra Vanniyar." The most important of the sub-divisions returned at the census were Agamudaiyan, Agni, Arasu (Raja), Kshatriya, Nagavadam (cobra's hood, or ear ornament of that shape), Nattaman, Olai (palm leaf), Pandamuttu, and Perumal gotra. Pandamuttu is made by Winslow to mean torches arranged so as to represent an elephant. But the Pallis derive the name from panda muttu, or touching the pandal, in reference to the pile of marriage pots reaching to the top of the pandal. The lowest pot is decorated with figures of elephants and horses. At a marriage among the Pandamuttu Pallis, the bride and bridegroom, in token of their Kshatriya descent, are seated on a raised dais, which represents a simhasanam or throne. The bride wears a necklace of glass beads with the tali, and the officiating priest is a Telugu Brahman. Other sub-castes of the Pallis, recorded in the Census Report, 1901, are Kallangi in Chingleput, bearing the title Reddi, and Kallaveli, or Kallan's fence, in the Madura district. The occupational title Kottan (bricklayer) was returned by some Pallis in Coimbatore. In the Salem district some Pallis are divided into Anju-nal (five days) and Pannendu-nal (twelve days), according as they perform the final death ceremonies on the fifth or twelfth day after death, to distinguish them from those who perform them on the sixteenth day. [19] Another division of Pallis in the Salem district is based on the kind of ear ornament which is worn. The Olai Pallis wear a circular ornament (olai), and the Nagavadam Pallis wear an ornament in shape like a cobra and called nagavadam. The Pallis are classed with the left-hand section. But the Census Superintendent, 1871, records that "the wives of the agricultural labourers (Pallis) side with the left hand, while the husbands help in fighting the battles of the right; and the shoe-makers' (Chakkiliyan) wives also take the side opposed to their husbands. During these factional disturbances, the ladies deny to their husbands all the privileges of the connubial state." This has not, however, been confirmed in recent investigations into the customs of the caste.