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It seems, therefore, reasonable to assume that the mercenary
forces called the Vfl.a ikkrae went to the island along with
the mercantile communities who, as we have seen earlier, had
a number of martial communities associated with them in South
India. Some of the Vjaikkras, however, may have gone there
independently and later acknowledged the leadership of the
mercantile communities.
The Valafijiyar, Nakarattr and some of the mercenary
bodies were only a few of the associates of the Aififfauvar who
were in Ceylon in the twelfth century. There are at least
three Tamil inscriptions in the island which refer to several
others. These records, which are unpublished, are found at
Vihalkaa, Vihrh!nna and Padaviya and contain the praasti
of the Aififii1ruvar at the beginning Unfortunately all are
badly damaged and the actual purport of the inscriptions cannot
be ascertained. These could be assigned to the twelfth century
on pa].aeographica]. grounds. The script of these inscriptions
is very similar to that of the Tamil inscriptions of the time
of GajabThu II ( 1132-1153). Apart from these Tamil epigraphe,
there is another record of the Aifffih1ruvar in the Sinhalese script
of the twelfth or the thirteenth century. Unfortunately only
1. See supra, p.i3n'