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About four miles north of Trincomalee is }1ai
where a Tamil inscription of the time of Gajabhu II has been
found The inscription records the grant by Gajabhu of land
to one Minta Koa, who is designated Superintendent of the
Pa].anquin Bearers (tiru-p41i-civikaiyri1_kaki) . The land
was granted as a jvita evidently for services rendered by the
donee. On another side of the slab on which this inscription
is indited, there is another Tamil epigraph, the purport of
which is not quite clear It states that nbharaa
paraia Tvar) sent a letter (tirumukam) approving the deed
(ceya].) of Gajabhu (Gajabmu T!var) and caused a stone
inscription (ci1-l!kam) to be set up. There was only one
Mnbharaa who was contemporaneous with GajabThu II, namely
the one who ruled in Rohaa in the middle of the twelfth
century, and, therefore, the }nbharaa of our inscription
must be the same person. It is not clear whether the transaction
referred to in the inscription had anything to do with the
grant of Gajabhu recorded on the same slab. But this seems
unlikely for Inbharaa never had any authority over Rjaratha,
1. K.Kana athi Pillai, '1añkai Inscription of Gajabhu II',
U.C. •, XX, No.1, April 1962, pp.12-1
2. Ibid.