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with not only the renovation of aiva temples but alsO the
repair of irrigation works such as the Kantay, Allai and
Vearasa tanks This accounts for his sobriquet 'K4akkta
(Builder of TnkR and Temples).
The personality of K4akk3a has been obscured
in Tainil tradition by several factors. His fame as a repairer of
tnkR, for instance, has led to a confusion of traditions relating
to him with those of the earlier and better known tank-builder
Nahsena. In fact, the Maakk4appu-nimiyani refers to K4akkta
as Makc Although Kuakka seems to have taken an interest
only in the repair of the major irrigation works in his
principality, Taniil tradition has credited him with the building
of those tanks. The Maffakk4appu-nnmya also refers to him
as a Vaitulliya CaivaA (Vaitulya aiva) an obvious confusion
with Nahsena who, according to the c1flvaçisa, was a Vaitulya
Buddhist Similarly, while Nahaena is recorded to have destroyed
Brhmanic temples in Trincornalee, Ku.akka is stated to
have destroyed Buddhist structures in the same place Evidently
1. Cf., , Tiruppai cey- p4alam, v. 65.
2. Nm., p. 32.
3. Ibid., p. 33.
!v., 36:111.
5. Ibid., 37:kl ; Nm., p.3k.