The caste trace their origin from Raja BENU or Venu who ruled at Singorgarh in Damoh.
"The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II"
R. V. Russell
Then Thoth told Isis not to fear, but to put away all anxiety from her heart, for he had come to heal her child, and he told her that Horus was fully protected because he was the Dweller in his disk, and the firstborn son of heaven, and the Great Dwarf, and the Mighty Ram, and the Great Hawk, and the Holy Beetle, and the Hidden Body, and the Governor of the Other World, and the Holy BENU Bird, and by the spells of Isis and the names of Osiris and the weeping of his mother and brethren, and by his own name and heart.
"The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians"
E. A. Wallis Budge
Het-BENU was also captured, and still he was not satisfied.
"The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians"
E. A. Wallis Budge