Unlike silvered glass mirrors that reflect from a rear coating and produce secondary ghost refraction, the Aranmula Kannadi casts a brittle high-tin bronze alloy disc between clay plates in a husk-fired kiln. 1
Polished over several days with burlap and rice-bran oil pastes until specular reflection emerges directly from the front metal face, it forms one of Kerala's eight auspicious ashtamangalyam ritual objects. 1
