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communities were Tamils, for it does not seem robable that
the pafca-pradhnis of a Sinhalese dipda set up the record
of a settlement in Tamil when the contending parties were
Sinhalese. This inscription could, therefore, be taken to
confirm further the testimony of the earlier record regarding
the presehce of Tamil settlers in rAgalla. There is also a
third Tamil inscription from BudumuttRva, but it is much
weathered to admit of its being deciphered
About six miles north of }galla, at I1ahakirinda,
has been discovered another Tamil inscription dated A.D.113k
The contents of this inscription, too, points to South Indian
settlements in the area. The purport of the epigraph is to
record the grant of certain lands to the Brhmatas of Jaya.koac
alma-c aturvdimaig4am. This BrThmaça Settlement was
presumably named after either Jayabhu I or Vikramabhu I,
who bore the consecration name of Salm!van (Calmka), and is
to be located in the region of Iiahakirinda.
Nearly eighteen miles south of flgalla, at
Pa4uvasnuvara, was found another Tamil epigraph dated in the
fifth year of ia.ka }alla (A.D.1192) It records the
1. i.Z., III, p.3O2.
2. Unpublished - Inscription No.29k of the epi raphical list
in the Archaeolo ica.l Department, Ceylon.
3. X.Kana athi Pilai, 'A Ta il Inscription from Pauvasnuvara'
U.C.R., XVIII, I os.3ek, July-Oct., 1960, pp.157-162.