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and door-jambs or on fragments of atone in the fortress It is
said that more inscriptions were found on the stones of Portuguese
buildings demolished in the area in the last century
A number of bronze images of iva and PrvatT have been unearthed
in different parts of the present temple precincts within Fort
Fredericlã It has been surmised that these were buried by the
temple priests at the time of the Portuguese attack in l62.
Most of these have been assigned, on grounds of style, • to
a date between the eleventh and the thirteenth century' some
of these may belong to the period of Ca occupation and some
may date to the thirteenth century when a prince named
Ku.akka appears to have carried out renovations to the
temp1e It is not possible to say whether many of these belong
to the twelfth century. These finds, however, indicate that
1. H.1.Codrington, 'The Inscription at Fort Frederick, Trinconialee',
3. .A.S. (C.B.), No.80, p. 1fk8; S.Paranavitana, 'A Fragmentar
Sanskrit Inscription from Trincomalee', E.Z., V, p.173;
A.S.C.A. . for 1957, p.8.
2. A.Sriskantaraca, 'Tirukamalai VaralLYUla.k4', Tirukkcar
Xlaya Kump!pika alar, 1963, p.95.
3. .Balendra, 'Trincomalee Bronzes', Tamul Culture, II, No.2,
April 1953, pp.176-198; A.S.C.A.R. for 1950, p.32.
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.Balendra, . cit., p.190.
5. A.S.C.A. . for 1950, p.32.
6. See infra, p. 327