Mediaeval Sinhalese Art c13.4

c13.4

At a later time, when a knowledge of stone building had spread to Southern India and the great Dravidian building tradition sprang up, it was easy for the Sinhalese kings to get such masons as they required thence; and it is probable that most of the *gal-vaḍuvo* actually living in Ceylon as subjects of the Sinhalese kings in later times, were of South Indian blood.