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littoral This process was, therefore, expedited by the ruthless
occupation of gha and his troops in the thirteenth century.
Our literary sources attribute the cause of Sinhalese migrations
from Rjaraha at this time solely to the foreign occupation.
We get the following statement in the Clavaa on this point:
During this alien rule several virtuous people had
founded on divers of the most inaccessible mountains
a charming town (or) a village and dwelling here and
there protected the laity and the Order 60 that they
were in peace. 2
After this some of these new towns and villages are enumerated
An echo of the Ct!lavaisa statement is found in the Hattbavanagalla-vihra-vaisa,
where it is said that when the enemy iorces
oppressed them , the ministers and such other rnportant personages
and the people left their villages and their townships in
thousands in search of places of protection in the rocky
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mountains and forest strongholds. Of those who remained behind,
many came under the rule of the new Vanni chieftains.
The permanent dislodgement of Sinbalese power
from Ijaraha, the confiscation of lands and properties by
the Ker4a and Dami.a soldiers and the consequent migration of
the official class and several common people to the south-west
1. See in4-a, p.L,.
2. Cv., 81:1-2.
3. I i ., 81:3-9.
k. Hatthavanaga11a-vihra-vaçisa, p. 30.