Pandatharippu or Pandaththarippu or Pandaththeruppu ( ta, பண்டத்தரிப்பு) is a village in the northern Jaffna District of

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

. It is located approximately 20 km from

City A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be def ...

Jaffna Jaffna (, ) is the capital city of the Northern Province of Sri Lanka. It is the administrative headquarters of the Jaffna District located on a peninsula of the same name. With a population of 88,138 in 2012, Jaffna is Sri Lanka's 12th most ...

. It is also spelled "Pandathirippu". It was a mission location when the

American Ceylon Mission The American Ceylon Mission (ACM) to Jaffna, Sri Lanka started with the arrival in 1813 of missionaries sponsored by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM). Although they had originally planned to work in Galle, the Briti ...

(ACM) came to Sri Lanka in the 19th century. Dr.

John Scudder John Scudder may refer to: * John Scudder (builder) (1815–1869), American builder * John Scudder (physician) (1889–1971), American physician and blood specialist * John Scudder Sr. (1793–1855), American medical missionary to India * John ...

founded the

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’s first western medical center in this village. It was also known as ''Panditeripo'' in ACM documents. There are number of schools some which were founded by ACM and Churches and Hindu Temples in the village.

Jared Bell Waterbury Jared Bell Waterbury (August 11, 1799-December 31, 1876) was an American minister and author. Waterbury was born in New York City, August 11, 1799. He graduated from Yale College in 1822. He spent upwards of two years in the Princeton Theological ...

(1870) ''Memoir of the Rev. John Scudder, M.D.: Thirty-six Years Missionary in India'', Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square, New York, retrieved 7/19/2007
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{{Reflist Villages in Jaffna District Valikamam South West DS Division