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Padaviya is Buddhanaghe1a where exists a ruined aiva shrine
in a cave with broken representations of a lifga, yoni and
Ga4ea. On one of the pillars used as door-jambe of the shrine
is a Sinhalese inscription of Kassapa IV (898-91k) and this
evidently points to the shrine having been built with materials
from a Buddiiist structure, either abandoned by the Buddhists
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or destroyed by the baivas. About twelve miles east of this
site, on the western shore of Kokkuly Lagoon, stands another
small temple 'of excellent stone-work similar to that at
Polonnaruva' (iva Dv1) These aiva ruins are clear indications
of Tamil settlement in the region around Kokkuly Lagoon during
this period.
Thus we see that the north-eastern hinterland
between Trincomalee and Kokkuly had Taini]. settlements by about
the twelfth century. In these settlements there is unmistakable
evidence of the presence of BrThinaas and mercantile communities.
In a region where there were two well-known ports at this time,
namely Gkaa and Pallavavki, the presence of mercantile
communities is only to be expected. But this does not explain
the existence of several Tmi1 settlements in this region.
1. A.S.C.A.R. for 1891, p.11; E.Z., I, p.191.
2. A.S.G.A. . for 1905, pp.36-37.