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The first important feature of this period is the
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renewal of foreign invasions almost immediately after the death
of NMañka Malla. Within the short span of twenty years
beginning from 1196 there were at least ci ht invasions of the
island, most of which were led or inspired by the Cas. These
are referred to in the Somth Indian and Ceylonese inscriptions
and in the literary works. In the reigns of ParkramabThu I
and Niañka Malla there were Ceylonese invasions of South
India and, possibly, counterLnvasions from the main1and
Sinhalese troops were supplied to Pya princes in their wars
against the Cas and the Ca-supported rivals. Although the
Sinhalese forces won initial successes, in the end they seem
to have lost to the Cas One such victory over the Sinhalese
is claimed by Ku1ttui!xga iii in the ninth year of his reign (A.D.1l87)
From his tenth year (1188) this monarch claims the conquest of
Ceylon in his inscriptions The ruler of Ceylon in 1188 was
Niañka Malla, who would then have been on the throne for
hardly a year. It seems likely that there was a C1a invasion
of the island at this time, if we take the vague and fragmentary
1. f., S.Wickremasinghe, The Age of ParkraxnabThu I, thesis
submitted to the Univerâity of London in 1958; A.Liyanagaivage,
The Decline of Polonnaruva and the ise of Dabade, thesis
submitted to the University of London in 1963.
2. Ibid. 3. S.I.I., III, p.86. k.A.Butterworth and
Venu opal hetty, Nellore Inscriptions, Inscription No. N 85.