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mentioned person seems to have occupied. the highest position
among them, judging fro; the height of the terrace he occupied.
As Paranavitana has pointed out, it is interesting to note that
the person who occupied the highest seat was a ship's captain.
This may mean that the community of Tmfls who insed this terrace
was a mercantile community, possibly organized into a guild.
The two other Brhmi inscriptions, from Periya-pi4iyan.k4am in
the Vavuniy district, mention a Tm11 trader Lamed Vikha,
who owned a cave in that place In South India, at Tirupparañkuam
and Sittanaval, there are at least three Brhmi inscriptions
of about the second century B.C. mentioning householders from
Ceylon (a) The establishment of religious contacts with the
Andiira country as early as the second century A.D. is attested
to by inscriptions at Ngrjuikoa, which refer to the
foundation of a monastery called the Sh4a-vihra by monks
from Ceylon Probably Telugus from the ndhra country were in
Ceylon, too t at this time. The Mahvaipsa mentions a 'Dam.13a'
named Vauka, 'a city-carpenter in the capital', among the
paramours of Queen Anul to be raised to the throne in the
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1. V, pt.2, p. 2k2.
2. C.Narayana Rao, . pp. 367, 368, 3755.
3. J.Ph.Vogel, 'Ngrjuikoa Inscriptions', E.I., XX, pp. 22, 23.