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Ceylon by the Dravidians was not as peaceful as it a ears to
have been in the case of the Jaffna peninsula. In these res ects
the p1 ce na es of the Vanni areas preserve valuable information
that may well o a long way in confirming the statem nts in the
Sinhalese sources that 1gha's army consited of many Ker4as,
that these mercenaries occupied several villages and were settled
here and there in Rjaratha and that their occupation was
far from peaceful. The caution that we have to exercise in the
use of to onymic materials which still await a proper examination
prevents us from drawing any definite conclusions. But it should
be stated that the evidence of these names and that of the
literary sources point in the same direction.
The archaeolo ical material, thou h disappointingly
small, also seems to confirm some of the above points. In the
Tamil Vanni districts only a few Dravidian-style aiva temples
of the thirteenth century have been foun , Among these the
temples at Tirukkvil, Kapuralla,and Nallatai-iakk
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Saiva remains at Uruttirapurani and Kuruntanr are notable.
m and the
These certainly indicate the existence of Tamul settlements
in those places in the thirteenth century. But monumental
1. S.Paranavitana, 'Archaeolo ical Summary', C.J.Sc. II, p.160-i 1;
A.S.C.A. . for 1933, p. 19 ; A.S.C.A.R. for 1907, p. 27 ;
A.S.C.A. . for 195 , p. 0.