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resembles in many ways the lion who is the father of Si*babThu
in the Vijayallegend. In the different versions of this story
one can distinguish the stages by which the lion of the Vijaya
legend becomes transformed into an ordinary hnm ii being. In the
Kailyamlai, on which the author of the a-vaipava-mlai
seems to have depended heavily for his story, we find this
character as a half-leonine and half-human being whose abode
was in a big cave in the hills (kla malai n muficu), to
which he carried away )rutappiravalli when he abducted her
The p!a-vaipava-nlai states that he as well as his son
bad leonine features, but it does not mention that his abode
was a cave In the Vaiypal we find that be is a normal hum'ui
being although his son is said to have possessed certain leonine
features In the Tir*-cala-puram even that element
disappears altogether In the K!car-ka1veu and the Ma t akkajappu
K4a and flahsena respectively
-nmiyam he is confused with
With the exception of the last two sources, al]. the others
give the name of this personage as Ukkiraci?tka (Fierce Lion)
or use variants of this name, such as Uira-cac iA1c
, (Zkt. Ugra
Sena Ziñha and U kira-n-ca-cl , (St. Ugra )1ah Sena Siiha)!
1. tm., p. 2.
2. lviii., pp. 13, 21.
3. !;a. v.15.
e, supra, p.'37
5. y., v.17 ; ., Tampain&c r-patalam, v. 31.