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Cava.aikkrar, a caste of weavers in the Tinnevelly district
He also oints out the similarity betwe n the name Zvlakkra
and the Tamil Cav4akkrar, a class of fishermen or ferrymen
The Svlakkrar are not mentioned in the South Indian sources
among the mercenary bodies. Perhaps they were a minor body of
mercenarie • In the fourteenth century, oo, there were Tamils
in the army of the Sinhalese ings, as is evidenced by the
Gaaldei inscription of Bbuvaneka Thu IV (l3kl-l35l) No
Tarnil inscription of the thirteenth century has been found in
the area covered by the Sinhalese kingdom. But Tamil inscriptions
of the fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth centuries have been
found in some places there. There is, however, an inscription
written in the Sinhalese and Tamil scripts and datable to the
thirteenth century, found at ?iysnkndura in the Kamdehna Tea
Estate at Naniunukula, Badulla district The Tamil script has been
1. M.B.Ariyapapal, ociety in Medieval Ceylon, p. 161.
2. Ibid.
3. S.Paranavitana, 'Gaaldei ock Inscription of .bhuvanekabThu IV',
r.z., Iv, p. 106.
k. A.S.C.A.R. for 1952, p. 1f2.