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Dear Gamaraala,
I will not comment on his thesis until I have read the whole of it and I have not. We do not know when Sinhala names of places initially appeard in Jaffna. On the same token there are Tamil names in the South. It would only prove that Sinhalese too lived in the North and so did the Tamils in the South -. For example, there was a reference in Mahavamsa to a very ancient port city called `Jambukoalpatna` in the North. That is supposed to be the port city from which ancient Lankans dpearted to East India. `patna` is the prakritised name of `Pattinam`. `Pattinam` is the name given to a port city in classical Tamil. What does that mean except that it could have been a Tamil city. Does it prove anything more other than that it would have been populated by Tamils. Kottai is a Tamil name for a Fort. What is the realtion `Kotte` has to do with Kottai? The names of cities alone does not mean much. We can keep on adding to this list both Sinhala and Tamil names. Most of the records of names of ancient cities are in their prskritised forms as the ancient `linguo franco` of the administration and elite was Prakrit. They may not really give a lot of clues to what we want to prove. Do you know that the old name of `Pollannaruwa` was `Pollannaaru`. Aaru in Tamil also means river. So what? Though it was a capital of the Cholas, what more can we say about it?? Can we say it was a Tamil city and therefore ????? Malaya rata was the name given to the Hill Kingdom which was outside the control of the Anuradhapura Kingdom. Malai means hill in Tamil. Does it mean anything more?? No idea!! Kula |
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