There are also surnames that indicate royal lineage of mudiraj people.

Many holders of the title now use Patwari as their family last name in Karnataka and a few other parts of South India. The peer of a patwari in Maharashtra and Karnataka is the talati.

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The office and the officeholder are called the patwari in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Bengal, North India and in Pakistan while in Sindh it is called Tapedar .

The position is known as the karnam or adhikari in Tamil Nadu, while it is commonly known as the talati in Gujarat and Maharashtra.

It seems to be quiet natural that some of the descendants of HAKKA and BUKKA are now within Mudiraj community.