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in the Tamil-n!valar-caritai and the reference to Kai (Kandy)
in the other work showethat the evidence of these works is
unreliable for the events of the twelfth century, for both places
were known by that name only after the ixteentb century
Rasanayagan's identification of Zbg with Jaffna in order to
argue for the existence of an independent kingdom in Jaffna in
earlier than the thirteenth century is also erroneous Zbg
of the Arab writers, as is well known to students of the history
of South-east Asia, corresponds to Jvaka (Sumtra or Nalay
Peninsula) and. not to a place in Ceylon.
Certain Ca inscriptions of the eleventh century
refer to the defeat of death of six Ceylonese kings at the
hands of the Ca rulers. These kings are Yikramabhu (Ilaikaiyarkn
-King of the Ceylonese) Vikrama-pçiya. (I1a.kcura -
Lord of Ceylon) VTra-cai1nka (Cik4attaraica, - King of
SiAh$a C!rvailava-mataarija, (attaraica - King of Ceylon)
1. C.Rasanayagam, . cit., p. 287 ;
2. Ibid., pp. 81, 192.
3. S.I.I., III, p. 5k.
k. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid.