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who were responsible for giving Sinhalese names for villages,
fields and estates The Y a-vaipava-inlai, the Tamil chronicle
of Jaffna, confirms this when it states that there were Sinhalese
people in Jaffna at the time of the first Tamil colonisation of
the area Secondly, the survival of Sinhalese elements in the
local nomenclature indicates a slow and peaceful penetration
of Tamils in the area rather than a violent occupation. This is
in contrast with the evidence of the place names in the Northcentral
Province, where Sinhalese names have been largely
replaced by Tami]. naxnes The large percentage of Sinhalese
element and the occurrence of Sinhalese and Tsmil conipounde in
the places names of Jaffna point to a long survival of the
Sinhalese population and an intimate intercourse between them
and the Tamila This is also,borne out by the retention of
some territorial names, like Valikmam (Sixth. VUligama) and
Marcci (Nracci-rata), which points to the retention of the
].. E.Ekwal]., 'The Celtic Element', in The Introduction
to the Study of English Place-names, ed. A.Mawer and F.LStenton,
I, pt. 1, Cambridge 192 4 , pp. 17 If
2. pp.9, 24.
3. See infra, p.3ç!
4. Cf., E.Ekwall, . cit., pp. 17,27,28 and 31.