4.
"The Kulta or Kolita are the chief cultivating class of Sambalpur. According to their own tradition they immigrated from the state of Baudh and their ancestors were water carriers in the household of Ramchandra." (R. D. Banerji.: History of Orissa: Vol. I, p. 24).
5.
"The Cuttack Tributary Mahals were supposed to contain many relics of later Buddhism. The state of Baudh named after Buddha was supposed to contain still a remnant of real Buddhist population." (H. P. Shastri, Introduction to Modern Buddhism by N. N. Vasu, 1911)
6.
Bonai:
Among the Hindus proper the most noteworthy caste is the Kalita or Kulta. They are peculiar to Sambalpur in the Central Provinces, Bonai and Assam and occupy in all three places a very similar position as most respectable and substantial cultivators. The Kalitas of Bonai resemble in appearance those of Assam both having strongly marked Aryan features with hazel or grey eyes, and there appears to be some ethnological connection between the two. The elders of the caste in Bonai, however, assert that they came originally from Mithila, the modern Tirhut in the days of Rama, and settled in Sambalpur from whence they migrated into Bonai six generations ago. Colonel
