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a) Ypia-tcam (173k) 1and g) !pam ( 173k) The earliest occurrence
of this name in the Sinhalese sources is around ].k50, in the
sanda poems of the time of Parkramabhu VI The form in
these poems is I-pauna. In all the Sinhalese works tifl
the British period this form has been retained without change.
In the Tamil chronicles the name occurs in the present form of
Yppam, except in one instance in the Vaiypal when the
form rAfram occurs ' This exception is evidently a copyist's
erroz, for there are several orthographic mistakes in the
Vaiypal. In the Portuguese works the form Jafanapata is
common According to de ueyroz, 'its name without corruption
is said to be Jafana-en-Putalam, which means the 'Town of the
Lord Jafaxia', and is the name of him who first peopled it'
Jafana-en-Putalam has been restored as
(the Town of Tppa)? De ueyroz also mentions another
1. J.Burgess, Tarnil and Sanskrit Inscriptions, Setipati Grant No. 13,
p. 90.
2. Ibid., Setupati Grant No.1k, p. 93.
3. Gir-sanda, v. 138; Kki1a-sanda, v. 263; Slalihini-sanda,
v. 29.
k. ., v.
5. F. as Queyroz, . cit., p.k7.
6. Ibid., pp. k7.-k8.
7. id., p. 11.7, fri. 1.