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Cnta-k4am Furtherri the pa-v ipava-nilai states that
it was Pau's queen who sent troops to prevent K$akkzfta
from building a temple at Kvaraii& But the Trincomalee
chronicles have it that Iakacavuntari, who later married
Kuakka, was the queen who attempted to prevent the work of
K4aia at Trincomalee Presumably the author of the ppavaipava-nlai
was drawing from several sources when f bricating
the story of the Mukkuva settlements in Jaffna and Batticaloa.
This account has little claim on our confidence. The account
in the Vaiy and the Vaiypal is clearly based on the popular
tradition about the l4ukkuva pirate Jr-araca, sometimes known
as Veti-araca, and is probably related to a later peri.od.
In the N kka4appu-nmiyam , the Mukkuvar are
referred as those of the Kuka ku]A, the origin of which tradition
i Th*'r
we have aire dy explained.. '-lire said to have been military
leaders under 1gha. Their place of on in is given as Kikaam,
which may be a distorted form of Kikktu (Calicut) in Kera.a.
This tradition seems to preserve some element of truth in it,
for in the thirteenth century we hear from other sources of the
1. S.Gnanapragasar, _vaipava_ka11ni.r,a, p. 5.
2. Iv., p. 10.
3. ., 'Tiruk$a.kaa Patalam', v.2 ff.
4. -.-- Dr s-.... ,y.109.