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and chieftains. This led to a migration of peaceful settlers
from South India. It was this peaceful mogration that was largely
responsible for the Tamil settlement of the Jafina district,
The settlement of Dravidians in the northernmost regions may,
therefore, be said to have been radically different in cbaracter
from the process of mercenary or military settlement in parts
of the present North-central and North-western Provinces.and
Vavuniya district. This is demonstrated by the evidence of
literary works and place-name materials. Whereas in the Jaffna
peninsula we come across a large perceatage of place-names with
with Sinhalese elements, the Tamil element is predominant in
the local nomenclature of the North-central Province and the
Vanni regions. The former indicate a slow and peaceful penetration
of Tamils in Jaffna and the latter a violent and sudden occupation
of the other areas. The survival of Sinhalese place-names, especially
of Sinhalese territorial names, in Jaffna tells strongly against
a wholesale extermination or displacement of the Sinhalese living
there. At the same time, Tamil names of estates denoting family
settlement which are found scattered across the peninsula, confirm
the evidence of the Tami2. chronicles regarding the settlement
of prominent Xml1ies from South India by the early kings of
Jaffna.
The settlements of the thirteenth century, therefore,
mark the most important stage in the course of the early TRWIil
and other Dravidian settlements in Ceylon. The political conditions