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ased on one of these invasions, Nilkiita Sastri doubts the
validity of the Sinhalese account on the ground that the sann
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on the Sasadavata is of a later date. But even if we dismiss
the details provided by the sann!, the evidence of the
Sasadvata, a work contemporaneous with the alleged invasions,
cannot easily be set aside. The next and the last claim of
KuIttuiga is made in an inscription of 1212 from Pudukki
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where the conquest of Ceylon is referred to as already accomplished
This claim is perhaps based on the successful invasion of the
island in 1209, which appears to have been Ca-inspired. It
is referred to in the Ct!lavaisa and in the contemporary
Sinhalese inscriptions. In the Bpiiya inscription of queen
Kalyavati (1202-1208), it is recorded that the queen had to
leave i.ip on account o a Tamil invasion This Tamil
invasion is also mentioned in the iip inscription of the
same queen, dated in her eighth regnal years According to this
1. K.A.Nilakanta Sastri, The Cas, p. kl2, note 76.
2. Pu ukktai Inscriptions (Text), No.166 ; K.A.Ni1kuita Sastri,
e CN.as, p.382.
3. D. . e Z. Wickremasinghe, 'Bpii Slab Inscription of Kalavati',
.., II, .19 -192.
S.Paranavitana, 'Ki4ip Slab In cription'9 .Z., V, p.157-158.