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and Kutiraimalai may be a Tamil rendering of later times However,
the identification of Hipporos with Kutiraimalai is itself in
doubt.
It is admitted by critical scholars that the legendary
accounts in the Pli chronicles about the Igaa are quite
unreliable Even if there were a people called 1gas, there is
no evidence to suggest that they were Tamfl- in language and
culture. There were persons with the name Nga all over India.
Even to this day we find a people called Ngas living in Northeast
India. The Ngas of the chronicles, like those of many
Pli and Sanskrit works, seem to be superhiinn beings Rasanayagam' s
arguments for the existence of Taniil settlements in Ceylon in
pre-Christian times, therefore, are wholly unacceptable1
Ceylon's geographical proximity to and close contacts
with the Tami]. country and. early conquests by TRnr1 adventurers
have been often used as the basis for the assumption that Tamils
were settled in the island in the early centuries of its history.
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1. There are other place-names on the north-western coast of 6eylon
which are Tamil renderings of Binhalese names. Cf., Si13.h. J4agult
o a-mune >Tamil Kaliy;a-tuai-mukam.
2. S.Paranavitana, 'The irya Kingdom in North Ceylon', pp. 180-183;
U.C. •C., I, pt.l, p. 95.
3. See infra, p. 11oIt.
k. See infra, pp.