Gudiya.--The Gudiyas are the sweet-meat sellers of the Oriya country. They rank high in the social scale, and some sections of Oriya Brahmans will accept drinking water at their hands. Sweet-meats prepared by them are purchased for marriage feasts by all castes, including Brahmans. The caste name is derived from gudo (jaggery). The caste is divided into two sections, one of which is engaged in selling sweet-meats and crude sugar, and the other in agriculture. The former are called Gudiyas, and the latter Kolata, Holodia, or Bolasi Gudiyas in different localities. The headman of the caste is called Sasumallo, under whom are assistant officers, called Behara and Bhollobaya. In their ceremonial observances on the occasion of marriage, death, etc., the Gudiyas closely follow the Gaudos. They profess the Paramartho or Chaitanya form of Vaishnavism, and also worship Takuranis (village deities). The Gudiyas are as particular as Brahmans in connection with the wearing of sect marks, and ceremonial ablution. Cloths worn during the act of attending to the calls of nature are considered to be polluted, so they carry about with them a special cloth, which is donned for the moment, and then removed. Like the Gudiyas, Oriya Brahmans always carry with them a small cloth for this purpose. The titles of the Gudiyas are Behara, Sahu, and Sasumallo. In the Madras Census Report, 1901, the caste name is given as Godiya. Gudugudupandi.--A Tamil synonym for Budubudukala. Guha Vellala.--The name assumed by some Sembadavans with a view to connecting themselves with Guha (or Kuha), who rowed the boat of Rama to Ceylon, and, as Vellalas, gaining a rise in the social scale. Maravans also claim descent from Guha. Gujarati.--A territorial name, meaning people from Gujarat, some of whom have settled in the south where they carry on business as prosperous traders. In the Madras Census Report, 1901, Gujjar is returned as a synonym. At a public meeting held in Madras, in 1906, to concert measures for establishing a pinjrapole (hospital for animals) it was resolved that early steps should be taken to collect public subscriptions from the Hindu community generally, and in particular from the Nattukottai Chettis, Gujaratis, and other mercantile classes. The mover of the resolution observed that Gujaratis were most anxious, on religious grounds, to save all animals from pain, and it was a religious belief with them that it was sinful to live in a town where there was no pinjrapole. A pinjrapole is properly a cage (pinjra) for the sacred bull (pola) released in the name of Siva. [154] It is noted by Mr. Drummond [155] that every marriage and mercantile transaction among the Gujaratis is taxed with a contribution ostensibly for the pinjrapole. In 1901, a proposal was set on foot to establish a Gujarati library and reading-room in Madras, to commemorate the silver jubilee of the administration of the Gaekwar of Baroda. Gulimi (pickaxe).--An exogamous sept of Kuruba.