113992242-Dravidian-Settlements-in-Ceylon-and-the-Beginnings-of-the-Kingdom-of-Jaffna-By-Karthigesu-Indrapala-Complete-Phd-Thesis-University-of-London-1965

The present name of this lace is a variant of this Taniil form.
It still continues to be part of the Tamil areas of Ceylon. These
considerations would lead uá to infer that the Tamilisatiozi
of this place-name was the result of Tamil settle ent in the
area. Similarly, Kotiyram is a place-name still in use. The
area which it denotes is settled by Tamils. Velskmm and
Pulainari are not in use today. But Taniil inscriptions as well
as Dravidian ruins of the C1a period have been found in the
places denoted by them It is, therefore, very probable that
these Tamilised forms of Sinhalese place-names are the result
of Tamil settlement. Thus, the evidence of toponyms have to be
used with caution. By itself, it cannot form the basis of any
important conclusion, It could, however, be used to strengthen
arguments based on other more reliable evidence.
The evidence of the four different types of sources
that we have just analysed generally corroborate and supplement
each other. While some of them provide more information than
the others, the general conclusions that ,could be drawn from
them remain basically the same. In the first place, while these
sources reflect the presence of a larger number of Tamila than
before, they do not at the same time point to any great Dravidian
migration having taken place in the wake of the Ca conquest.
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1. See supra,