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old territorial divisions and tell strongly against wholesale
extermination or displacement of the Sinhalese population
We are in no position to confirm with the aid of
other evidence that the penetration and settlement of Tamils
in the Jaffna peninsula was peaceful and slow, though it seems
implicit in the Tamil chronicles. According to these, Jaffna
was settled from time to time by Tamils, invited from South
India, after the establishment of a separate kingdom there
That the relations between the new-comers and the Sinhalese
were sometimes not too cordial is reflected in these works
But there is no evidence to suggest that the Sinhalese were
completely ousted from the peninsula. In fact, we are in a
position to conclude from the evidence of the place names
that the Sinhalese p0 ulation survived there long. In the
later and more reliable sections of the a-vaipavamlai,
dealing with the rule of the Taniil kings of Jaffna,
there are references to the frequent clashes between Sinhalese
and Tamils as late as the middle of the sixteenth century.
The following statement in the is
1. Of the seven territorial divisions of Jaffna three bear
the name of Valikmam, namely Va1ikmam North, East and West;
two bear the name of Marcci, namely V4a-Marcci and Tealarcci.
See infra, p. ç31
2. See infra, 3. Cf., Yvm., pp.2k, 36, k5.