Castes and Tribes of Southern India/Vastra
Vastra.___One division of the Koragas is called Vastra, meaning cloths such are used as a shroud for a corpse, which were given to them as an act of charity, the wearing of new cloths by them being prohibited. Vastrala (cloth) further occurs as an exogamous sept of the Karna Sālē and Dēvāga weavers.