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and established permanent settlements. Probably they, or most
of them, stayed behind permanently. The situation created by the
increasing numbers of Ker4a and Taniil mercenaries in the seventh
century and later is comparable with that caused by the Teutonic
federates in Britain and on the Rhine and the Danube frontiers
of the Roman empire in the fifth century A.D. The British
parallel is striking in this respect. We find that a British
king employed Saxon mercenaries from the mainland to repel the
invasions of his ememies and granted land in the eastern parts
of his kingdom for their settlement. Eventually the federates
created trouble over payment, plundered the country and asserted
their power Although the situation in Ceylon was not similar
in magnitude, it is in a similar ninner that the South Indian
mercenaries appear to have behaved on several occasions between
the seventh and the tenth century. The Cflavasa refers to
instances when the mercenaries showed no desire of returning to
their homelands, resisted to being expelled by the Simhalese
rulers, created trouble over payments, plundered the country
and at times took over power at the capital. For instance,
immediately after the death of Kassapa II (650-659), his nephew
].. R.G.Collingwood and JN.L.Myres, Roman Britain and the English
Settlements, pp. 358-359.
2. Ibid., p. 359.