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The above Ca inscriptions of Mahtittha, therefore,
provide us with some information about that port in the time of
the Ca occupation. We find that it was renamed by the Cas
as Rjarjapurarn. There were at least two Saiva temples, one
of which was built L tb period and named RIjarijvaram, after
Rjarja Ca. There were at least a few Tamil trading communities
who were associated with the temples. Probably there were also
other Tamil settlers at Mahtittha during the Ca period.
Tanii]. inscriptions of the Ca period have also
been discovered in the Hurulu and Nuvaragam divisions of the
Tamankauva district in the North-central Province, Most of
these are too brief or badly weathered to be of any use to us.
In the Hurulu division, the inscriptions are mainly concentrated
in Padaviya. Some of them date back to the time of Rjarja I.
There are more than rn, half a dozen of these. Most of these have
been found among the ruins of Siva temples. One of them, dated
in the twenty-seventh year of Rjarja I (loll), appears to be
a record of a mercantile community for it contains the names
of a number of cet'is (money-lenders or traders) Another, also
dated in the reign of Rjarja I, registers a number of gifts
to a temple which appears to have been named after Rjarãja.
1. Unpublished - No. I 3k0 of the epigraphica]. list in the
Archaeological Dept., Ceylon ; A.S.C.A. . for 1891, p. 64.