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from 1Cantay associates Gajabhu 11 with a sacrifice held at
the brahinadeya that place The same monarch is credited in
the T ia-]cailca-puram with the patronage of Brhmaaa
attached to the temple of cvaram The patronage extended
to them by the Sinhalese rulers as well as the need for them
in the new temples of the island may have been responsible for
the migration of BrIhmaas from South India. Although it is
possible that there were in Ceylon BrThmaas from other parts
of the subcontinent, there is little doubt that the catur-v!climafga!ams
were settlements of South Indian BrThmaas. The
occurrence of Tamil inscriptions in these places lends support
to this hypothesis. Even the little internal evidence that we
get in these inscriptions regarding the BrIhmaas points in the
same direction. The P4aniftai inscription, for instance,
furnishes us with the names of a BrThmaa couple from the
Vijayarija-caturvdi-mag4am at Kant4y. They are KrLnpacceu
Tajfia K.iramavitta and NaAkaiccii These persona were South
Indians, probably of Telugu origin. In the contemporary inscriptions
1. No. I 359 of the epigraphical list in the Archaeological
Department, Ceylon.
2. ., VII, vv.95-97.
3. S.Paranavitana, 'A Tpm4l Slab Inscription from Paaxzai',
., IV, p. 195. The reading NJcaiccai for NaAkeicclzi is wrong.