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As for monuments, only one Dravidian-style temple has survived
without much damage. Several others appear to have been erected
in the thirteenth century but they are almost all in ruins and
are not by any means significant buildings It may be that owing
to the unsettled conditions that obtained in the island in this
period there was not much building activity. The chronicles give
hardly any information in this respect. The Tamil chronicle,
Vaiyipal, refers to the migration, around this time, of the
Krnaçiyar who were a mercantile community from the Telugu
2
country. This work also refers to the settlement of such artisans
as Taccar (carpenters), Tatr (goldsmiths), Kar (braziers)
and Kollar (blacksmiths) As we shall see later, the authenticity
of these statements can be questioned. It seems possible that
the author of the Vaiypal sometimes based his statements on
the conditions obtaining in his time, that is to say he was
just enumerating the castes of Jaffna in his time as having
migrated in the thirteenth century.
In the records of South India, too, there is little
or no evidence regarding the migration of peaceful settlers.
1. See infra, p ?. 3 I ff.
2. Xu. v.41
3. Ibid., m