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yes sir, but the following facts are apparent.
1. mahavamsa itself says there were inhabitants -3 tribes atleast when vijaya and soldiers landed in srilanka.
2. srilanka is at the closest just less than 24 km from tamilnadu.
3. by commonsense the island would have been inhabited naturally, as human habitation in tamilnadu is archaeologically evidenced earlier than 2000bc e.
4. in all srilankan chronicles, since ancient times since their arrival whole of north and part of central island was mentioned nonsinhalese atleast until duttagamini.
5. ther had been contiguous mention of tamil people in these areas in all chronicles -mahavamsa and others.
6. there is no sinhalese/pali inscriptions earlier than 200bce, but there are tamil inscriptions dating to earlier than
7. by birth all sinhalese are maternal cousins to pandya tamils, as pandyan brides married vijaya's men as per mahavamsa.
i ve just quoted from history of srilanka.
dare anybody deny. read mahavamsa first and come .
citations of archaeological evidences:
http://www.archaeology.lk/http:/www.archaeology.lk/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Dinithi-Volume-1-Issue-4.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tissamaharama_Tamil_Brahmi_inscription
http://noolaham.net/project/18/1733/1733.pdf
Early Settlements in Jaffna, P.Raghupathy : 1983, 100's of references cited here all from Srilankan and western scholars
Deraniyagala SU, 1972, 1980: C-14 dating of potteries of Kantarodai/Jaffna from 1290+/-60 bc
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[[User:Senthilkumaras|Senthilkumaras]] ([[User talk:Senthilkumaras|talk]]) 13:31, 18 April 2014 (UTC)
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