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CHAP!ER VI
THE BEGINNINGS OF THE XINGDOX OF JAFPNL - I
)gha and Candrabhnu
After the drift of Sinhalese power to the southwestern
parts of Ceylon, the only political authorities in the
northern regions about rhom we hear in the Pli chronicle are
the Vanni chieftaina If we had to depend solely on the
Clavasa for information, we should conclude that after about
the middle of the thirteenth century the whole of the former
Rjaraha was split into minor chieftaincies under Vanni rulers
who owed allegiance to the Sinhalese ruler at the capital in the
south-western region. But the Rehla of Ibn Batuta the Sinhalese
chronicle NiIya-sagrahaya3and the Sinhalese poems Slalihinisanda
Gir-sanda and Kkila-sand!a 6 as well as later
chronicles like the Rjvaliya and the Tamil and Portuguese
1. Cv., 88:87, 89:51.
2. The Rebla of Ibn Batuta, Tr. Nandi Hussain, Baroda 1953, p. 217.
3. p. 27.
k. Slalihini-sanda, ed. LC.Fernando, Moratuva 1956, v. 29.
5. Gir-sanda, ed. T.Sugathapala, Alutgama 192k, vv. 138_111O.
6. Kkila-sand g a, ed. P.S.Perera, Colonibo 1906, vv. 263-26k.