Moreover, there is a small population of Vedda people who are believed to be the original indigenous group to inhabit the island.

It also catered to the indigenous Vedda people.

Till today the indigenous Vedda people come to venerate at the temple complex from their forest abodes.

Milaka, occurring twice in the sources, may be Mlechcha, an aboriginal population of Vedda people.

If considered a subdivision of Veddas, then they are by far the largest sub-group amongst the Vedda people.

Anthropologists consider them to be partly descended from the indigenous Vedda people, as well as local Tamils.

The priests of the temple are known as Kapuralas and are believed to be descended from indigenous Vedda people.

As part of Mahaweli Project Vedda people from several villages have been resettled in Henanigala.

It is known as the refuge of the indigenous Vedda people as well as their moribund Vedda language.

Other communities included Moors, Burghers, Kaffirs, Malays and the indigenous Vedda people.

The Vedda language is the language of the indigenous Vedda people of Sri Lanka.

A community of Vedda people, the indigenous ethnic group of Sri Lanka lives within the park boundary in Henanigala.

By the time anthropologist Charles Gabriel Seligman visited the location in 1911, a cave within the rock had become a refuge of the indigenous Vedda people.

The town Kathiraveli in the Vaharai region is mainly populated by minority Sri Lankan Tamils and indigenous Vedda people.

His main ethnographic work described the culture of the Vedda people of Sri Lanka and the Shilluk people of the Sudan.

Early inhabitants of Sri Lanka were probably the ancestors of the Vedda people, an indigenous community living in modern-day Sri Lanka, which numbers approximately 2,500.

The Vedda people used the breed for hunting, and it was prized after the bow and arrow, so much so that the dogs were given away with daughters on their marriage.

Kande Yaka translated as spirit of the mountain or rock in English is a popular spirit invoked during religious rituals of the indigenous Vedda people of Sri Lanka.

Vedda people, the indigenous people of Sri Lanka, numbering less than a thousand people, live in Kandeganwela, Kotatalawa, Dambana and other places before the declaration of the park.

It is one of the few religious sites in Sri Lanka that is venerated by the majority Sinhala Buddhists, minority Hindu Tamils, Muslims and the indigenous Vedda people.

The deity at Kataragama is indigenous and long-celebrated in Sri Lankan lore and legend, and originally resides on the top of mountain called Wædahiti Kanda (or hill of the indigenous Vedda people) just outside of the Kataragama town.

Anuradhapura Veddas or Vedikula people of North Central Province of Sri Lanka are descendants of indigenous Vedda people of Sri Lanka who have adopted the culture, religion and language of the dominant Sinhalese residents of the province.