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-araiya, as, for instance, Pallavaraiya (Chief of the Pallavas)
and Kalifdcattaraiya (Chief of the Kliñgas). Kurukulattaraiya,
may also have been just a title of a mercenary leader in the
army of VijayabThu. He may have been mistaken by the Cas for
a feudatory chief.
An inscription of Rjarja I from Tanjore registers
the grant of land in five villages of Ceylon to the temple of
Tanjore. These villages are said to have been located in }ppicuzxzpu
Koiyram alias Rjarja-v4anu and in Kaakka Koiyram
alias Vikkirama-c5a-v4anu Koiyrazn is a territorial
division in the Trincomalee district, still known by that name,
which is a Tamilieed form of the SirLhalese Kotasara (Pii Kohaera).
Although several Ca inscriptions have been discovered in the
Trincomalee district, none comes from Koftiyram. Since the
above grant was made by a Ca ruler and not by the citizens of
the five villages, it is not possible to aay whether there were
Tamils living in Koiyram in this period. But there are at
least two other South Indian epigra hs which record the grants
of some Ceylonese citizens to South In ian temples. One of them
is in Kuttflam, in the Tinnevelly district and registers 'the
grant of land by residents of Viandai alias Vikrama-pyanalltr,
a village in KUr-nAu, which was a sub-division of
1. S.I.I., II, p. k26.