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Kvaram at Trincomalee, contain traditions of the time of
Gajabhu II, probably preserved originally in the annals of
Kvaram. With the help of all these sources it is possible
to locate several, if not all, of the Tamil settlement sites
of this period.
Two regions have yielded the majority of the Tamil
inscriptions and aiva archaeological materials for this period.
One is the north-eastern littoral, forming the northern part of
the present eastern Province, from the Kokkuly Lagoon down to
Verukal with a width of about twenty-five miles from the sea
to the interior. The other is the northern part of ancient
Dakkhiadesa, now comprising largely the southern regions of the
North-western Province. In the former region, Tamil inscriptions
have been discovered at Padaviya, h1ka, Kanta]iy, Paaznai
and MafLkai. aiva archaeological remains datable to this
period are found at Kumpakaia-malai, Kandasmi-malai, horagoa,
Kantaly, P4anzftai, Pta-ku and Tampalakmam. In the
literary sources we get traditions pointing to the presence of
Tamils at TrincomaJ.ee, Tampalak niin , KantalAy and Verukal. In
the previous chapters we have seen that there is a certain
amount of evidence which points to Tainil settlements at Padaviya,
Moragoa, Paragiyaiya, Periyak4am and Trincomalee
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1. See supra,