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including the Vanni chiefs, who were in control of different
parts of northern Ceylon pursued a policy of settling colonists
front South India in the newly acquired dontinions. There may,
therefore, be some truth in what the above accounts have to
say. Some of the communities mentioned in the list of colonists
were already in Ceylon in the twelfth century. These are the
Malaiyakam (Ker4as), Kaar (Kar as) and Akampat iyr
They had gone to the island mRinly as mercenaries. The Ker4as
are also mentioned in the Clava1sa and the Pjvaliya among
the soldiers of }Igha Similarl; the reference to the Jvaka
settlement in Cvakacc!ri seems to have been based on reliable
traditions. As we know, it was in the thirteenth century that
the Jvakas under Candrabhnu occupied the northern regions pf
the island and possibly settled in places like Cvakaccri
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(Jvaka-cri ),Aand
C qAfi.k al (Jvk-kffai), which preserve
their memory in their names It is possible, however, that the
reference to te Jvaka settlement is based on the place name
and not on any genuine tradition, but this seems unlikely.
1. See supra, p.
2. See supra, p 14r
3. S.Paranavitana, 'The Lya Kingdom of North Ceylon', . cit.,
p. 19k ; see infra, pr.CJ1 . . S . .
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