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The earliest use of the word is found in a Tamil Brahmi inscription as well as in the Sangam literature. The Thiruparankundram inscription found near Madurai in Tamil Nadu and dated on palaeographical grounds to the 1st century BCE, refers to a person as a householder from Eelam (Eela-kudumpikan).[4] The inscription reads,
: erukatur eelakutumpikan polalaiyan "Polalaiyan, (resident of) Erukatur, the husbandman (householder) from Eelam." .[3]
Since the 1980s the words Eelam and Eelavar have been taken up by the Sri Lankan Tamil resistance movement. In this usage, Eelam refers to Tamil Eelam, an area covering what has been reconstructed by historians as the former Jaffna Kingdom. Eelavar now refers to the future citizens of Tamil Eelam
Eelam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Names for Sri Lanka
Sinhala, Sinhale, Lanka, hela, Helaya, heladiva, heladivaina, Sinhala div, Sinhala deepa
Word "serendipity" came from Sinhala div.
Celio (Sinhala land) and then by British it was "Ceylon" (Sinhala land)
Eelam came from Sinhelam, Tamils have issue with 'h' they use "K" which sound as "G". That's why some of Tamils say "Singhala" but we are "Sinhala".