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that lived in this quarter on the basie of these mounds. It is
somewhat far-fetched to suppose that the Tamils at Anurdhapura
were assigned different quarters of the city on the basis of
their castes. Further, the evidence of the above inscriptions,
revealing the presence of the ku Iu who were possibly traders,
goes against this conclusion. This area, where the ruins are all
of a religious nature, appears to have had aiva as well as
Buddhist temples which were common places of worship for the
Draidians who lived in and near the city. Although the Tami].
Ruins are concentrated in the area between the path from Jetavaxirnia
to Vijayrina and the path to Pa.k4iya from Kuctam PokuQa
scattered remains of aiva monuments have been discovered here
and there even outside these limits, but almost all in the northern
part of the city. For instance, in the area north of the Basavak4ant
tank some stone liñgas were dizcovered Near the sluice of the
same tank was discovered a stone-based Piaiyr teniple Ih the
Citadel area, the figure of a small na.ndi and the argha of a
_____ were unearthed A quarter of a mile north of the Thprma
1. LS.C.A.R. for 1892, p . 5.
2. A.S.C.A.R. for 1890, p. 2.
3. Ibid., p. 3
k. A.S.C.A.R. for 1898, p. 3.