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putu-ci$i But it is not possible to determine whether these are
place-names of Ceylon or South India. Some of these appear as
•1!vita villages held by CVa officials while some others occur
as the places of origin of certain donors. As villages in South
India were sometimes assigned to officials serving in Ceylon,
as in the case of Ti Kumara, who was assigned the village of
Ciu-ka-nallr in Cnmsalam although he was serving at
Mahtittba and as many of the donors mentioned in the inscriptions
may have come from South India, we cannot be certain that these
villages were in Ceylon. Moreover, some of these names occur
both in the Tamil country and. in Ceylon, so that it is difficult
to identify them in any particular region. NaUUr, for instance,
is a very common name in South India. In Ceylon, too, there at
least four places of that name Putu-kui also occurs in both
regions It seems probable that most of these places mentioned
in our inscriptions were in South India.
There are a few Tamilised forms of Sinhalese placenames
which occur in the contemporary inscriptions, namely
Ntffam5 (Sinh. ?toa, Pli Mahtittha), Pulainari 6 (Sinii. Polonnaru,
1. Unpublished - No. I 776.
2. See suDra, p. iO
3. See p. qrr.
k. Pudukkuiya in Anurdhapura district and Putukki4i in
Mafig4anu in South India, M.E. • for 1917/1 , p. 89.
5. S.I.I., IV, No.l 1fl ; see supra, p.1o1.
6. A.S.C.A.R. for 1909, p. 27.