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and Buddhag.ma (I nikdea) Of thãse in the east only Chagrna
(Sikãxnain) is mentioned by name It is not known from the
Clavasa whether there were any Tamil settlements in these
Ca strongholds. Evidently there were many Ca troops stationed
at these places and possibly some of them settled down there.
Although the evidence of the C1tTlavasa is rather flimsy for
such a speculation, there are other considerations which support
it. The discovery of Tamil inscriptions of the twelfth century
and the occurrence of place-names denoting Taniil settlements
in or not far from most of the C]a strongholds mentioned above
suggest that there may have been Tamil settlers in and around
the Ca strongholds in the eleventh century
The Cflavaisa claims that 'all the warlike, valiant
Co.as who were to be found here and there, gathered together
in Pulatthinagara' on the óe èf the final debacle, and that
the army of Vijayabhu, when it triumpahntly entered the city,
'at once exterminated a].]. the Damias root and branch' The
statement that all the Te mils who lived in Polonnaruva during
the C]a rule were annihilated is obviously an exaggeration.
1. 58:k2-k5.
2. Ibid., .$.C.
3.See infra,
'I. 58:51, 56.