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contemporaneous with the occupation of Egha it is unlikely
that this work is based on another sOurce, unless we take the
source to be monastic records. It seems likely that the
Ci11avaisa account is based on that of the P1valiy or om
the records used by the author of the latter work. The iporant
point, however, is that the discrepancies in the two works are
identical. The Pjvaliya, too t calls gha a 1C1i!iga king
(Kaligu-raja) at first and Dravia king (Dravia-raja) and
Tamil king (Dem4a-raja) later on Similarly, his soldiers are
called }lalala (Ker4a) at first, Dema.a (Tamil) in several
other places and Dema3a and Nalala (Dem4a Nalala maha senaga)
in one place That Parkramabhu II, in his campaigns against
gha, fought the lala1as and the Dravias (Tamils) is
maintained not only in the P1jvaliya but also in other
Sinhalese works such as the Dabadei-katikvata, NiJcyasafigrahaa
and the Saddharnia-ratnkaraya There are several
ways of explaining this confusion in our sources. Firstly,
1. Pv., pp.108, 114, 116.
2. Ibid., pp.108, 116.
3. Ibid., pp.117-118; Katikvat-sa1gar, ed. D.B.Jayatilaka, p.8;
Nks., p. 8; Saddhar a-r tnkaraya, p.314.