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proceeded slowly after the Ca conquest, although any attempt
at large-scale settlement of people from South India does not
seem to have taken place before the foundation of the Jaffna
kingdom in the thirteenth century.
No definite evidence regarding any significant
Tamil settlement in the Batticaloa district of the Eastern
Province, which is now a predominantly Taniil area, or in other
parts of southern Ceylonhas so far come to light. It is possible
that jhere were some Tamil settlers in the atticaloa district
for 1 from the thirteenth century onwards,we get archaeological,
epigraphic and literary evidence pointing to Tami]. settlements
in that area The Cas had a stronghold at Chagma in this
district. Not far from this place, which is now known by the
Tamilised form of Skmam, is the Tirukvil Siva temple, built
in the P4ya style of architecture and held to be of the same
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date as the Siva Dvl No.1 at Polonnaruva. Although it is
possible that this temple was built in the twelfth century, it
seems probable that it is a construction of the thirteenth
century In all probability significant Tamil settlements were
1. See infra, Pf-37-3
2. C.J.Sc. (G) , II, pp.l60-l6l.
3. See infra, p. 37