In ancient Roman religion, Empanda or Panda was a goddess, or possibly an epithet of Juno.
Varro associates her with Ceres, and notes that there is a Roman gate named after her, the Porta Pandana.
A similarly named gate is mentioned in the Umbrian Iguvine Tablets (VIa 14): pertome Padellar.
Modern scholarship associates the Latin Empanda with the Oscan Patanaí (in the dative singular), and the Umbrian Padellar (<*Padenla:s < *Patnla:s < *Patnola:s), with Latin -nd- regularly from *-tn-, and Oscan regular vowel insertion to break up consonant clusters.
[3] Empanda had a sanctuary near the gate which led to the capitol and which was called the Porta Pandana after her.