[9][10] The word Khandua in Odia translates to the cloth worn in the lower half of the body.
Traditionally Kentuli Khandua is offered to Jagannath as lower cloth.
[10] Weaver communities of Maniabandha and Nuapatana[10][11] of Cuttack traditionally weave this kind of pata.
The red color is prepared naturally from the shorea robusta (sal tree).
[7] The design motif has an auspicious elephant that represents Buddha surrounded by trailing vine with peacocks in it, a large many petaled flower, a unique Orissan animal called Nabagunjara, a deula kumbha.