 The port of Beypore served as a ship building center.According to K. V. Krishna Iyer, the court historian in Kozhikode, the members of the royal house of Samoothiri belonged the Eradi sub-caste of Nair aristocracy.The Samantas claimed a status higher than the rest of the Nairs.The Hindu theological formula that the rulers must be of Kshatriya varna may have been a complication for the Samantas of the Kodungallur Chera monarch.