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century. The source of our information is the fla l]drTra inscription
from Polonnaruva, which appears to have been set up not long
after the death of Vij&yabThu I (iUO) The Valafijiyar and the
Nakarattr are referred to here as those closely associated
with the Vjikkaa. The exact relationship is couched in the
following lines of the inscription:-
)-tantirattm ki ekajukku nittaikai ua
Valaflceyaraiyuni eau kt!i varum Nakarattir
uiraiyum_ki ..... 2
Paranavitana has rendered it in English as follows:-
We of the I4ahtantra, having called together the
Valafijiyar who are our leaders, and the Naka.rattr and
others, who always accompany us... 3
The Valaceyar of our inscription,were, of course, the
Valafijiyar who are sometimes referred to as Baafijigas in the
Kannada inscriptions. In the first place, these lines inform
us that the Vala.jiyar and the Nakarattr were in Ceylon along
with the VjaikkIras in the twelfth century and possib].y in the
eleventh, too, for there is evidence for the presence of the
Vaikkras in the eleventh century But more important than
this is the light thrown on the nature of the relationship
1. S.Paranavitana, 'The Polonnaruva Inscription of VijayabThu I',
2 • £i• ' pp. 330-338.
2. Ibid., p. 337.
3. Ibid., p. 338.
k. See supra, p.c7.