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form when this work was written. According to tradition, Vaiypuri
Aiyar, the author of this chronicle, was the court poet of one
of the kings of Jaffna who bore the consecration name Cekarcack.ara
As Gnanapragasar is inclined to believe, 'it would
seem that the Vaiy was composed during the times of the last
Jaffna kings' The contents of this work have been critically
analysed and used with caution in our work.
The Kailyamlai, a chronicle of the Kailyantar
temple in Jaffua, contains an eulogistic account of the kings
o Jaffna and. appears to have been composed at the beginning
of the seventeenth century. It mentions the letupatis of 1?Rmnad,
the first of whom began his rule around l6O1^ Some sections of
this work have been based on the Vaiypal. Perhaps the most
useful section is that dealing with the settlement in Jaffna
of certain families from the Tamil country.
The Y pa-vaipava-mlai is a prose chronicle of
the Jaffna kingdom and was written, as stated in its preface,
when the Dutch Conimsindant Ian Maccara (Mkka.1a) was administering
Jaffna (A.D. 1736). As admitted in the preface, the author has
1. title page.
2. 'Sources for the Study of the History of Jaffna', T.C., II,
Nos. 3&k, p. 3]Lf, fn.18.
t1f%mts I93i
3. Mutturca Kavircar, Kailyamlai, ed, C.V. Jampulinkazu Pillai,,.<
C.Rasanaagam'a ForewGrd, ibid., p. lf ; J. .A.S. (C.B.), N.S.,
VII, pt. 2, p. 176.
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