Tupakala.--Tupakala or Tupaki (gun) has been recorded as an exogamous sept of Balija, Kavarai, and Yanadi. Turaka.--Recorded as a sept of Kuruba. It is further a Telugu name sometimes applied to Muhammadans. There is also a thief class, known as Bhattu Turaka. (See Bhatrazu.) Turuvalar.--Recorded in the Salem Manual as a caste name, by which some of the Vedans call themselves. "The Turuvalar are distinguished as the Kattukudugirajati, a name derived from a custom among them which authorizes informal temporary matrimonial arrangements." U Udasi.--A few members of this Central India sect of religious mendicants and devotees have been returned at times of census. It is said to have been founded three hundred years ago by one Gopaldas. Udaiya.--Udaiya, meaning lord, is the title of many well-to-do Lingayats and of some Jains, and Udaiya or Wodeiyar occurs as the name of a Lingayat sub-division of the Badagas of the Niligiri hills. The Maharajas of Mysore belong to the Wodeiyar dynasty, which was restored after the Muhammadan usurpation of Haidar Ali and Tipu Sultan. The name of the present Maharaja is Sri Krishna Raja Wodeiyar Bahadur. Udaiyan.--It is noted in the Madras Census Report, 1891, that "the four Tamil castes Nattaman, Malaiman, Sudarman (or Suruthiman), and Udaiyan are closely connected. The last is probably a title rather than a caste, and is the usual agnomen of the Nattamans, Malaimans, and Sudarmans, as also of the potter caste (Kusavan). Nattaman means a man of the plains, Malaiman a man of the hills, and Sudarman one who does good, a hero. Nattampadi is another form of Nattaman. Tradition traces the descent of the three castes from a certain Deva Raja, a Chera king, who had three wives, by each of whom he had a son, and these were the ancestors of the three castes. There are other stories, but all agree in ascribing the origin of the castes to a single progenitor of the Chera dynasty. It seems probable that they are descendants of the Vedar soldiers of the Kongu country, who were induced to settle in the eastern districts of the Chera kingdom. Additional evidence of the important position they once held is afforded by the titles Pandariyar, Pandarattar (custodians of the treasury), which some of them still use. Some of them again are locally styled Poligars (Palayakkaran) by the ordinary ryots, and the title Kavalgar is not infrequent."