Castes and Tribes of Southern India/Guha Vellāla

by Edgar Thurston

Guha Vellāla.——The name assumed by some Sembadavans with a view to connecting themselves with Guha (or Kuha), who rowed the boat of Rāma to Ceylon, and, as Vellālas, gaining a rise in the social scale. Maravans also claim descent from Guha.