The dissentients retained gosha, and were therefore called outsiders or Velamas. This does not, however, explain what the original name of the caste was, and the truth of the story is doubtful. Since this dispute, the Velamas have themselves had a split on the subject of gosha, those who have thrown it off being called Adi or original Velamas, and the others Padma Velamas. The Velamas seem to have come south with the Vijayanagara kings, and to have been made Menkavalgars, from which position some rose to be Poligars. Now they are chiefly the hangers-on of poligars or cultivators. To distinguish them from the Vellalas in the southern taluks, they call themselves Telugu Vellalas, but it seems very improbable that the Velamas and Vellalas ever had any connection with one another. They are styled Naidus." [The Velamas style themselves Telugu Vellalas, not because of any connection between the two castes, but because they are at the top of the Telugu castes as the Vellalas are of the Tamil castes. For the same reason, Vellalas are sometimes called Arava (Tamil) Velamalu.] The most important sub-divisions returned by the Velamas at the census, 1891, were Kapu, Koppala, Padma, Ponneti, and Yanadi. "It is," the Census Superintendent writes, "curious to find the Yanadi sub-division so strongly represented, for there is at the present day a wide gulf between Velamas and Yanadis" (a Telugu forest tribe). In the Vizagapatam Manual, a class of cultivators called Yanadulu is referred to; and, in the Madras Census Report, 1901, it is recorded that entries under the name Yanati "were clubbed with Yanadi; but it has since been reported that, in Bissam-Acuttack taluk of the Vizagapatam Agency, there is a separate caste called Yanati or Yeneti Dora which is distinct from Yanadi." It would appear that, as in the south, the Velamas call themselves Telugu Vellalas, so in the north they call themselves Yanatis.