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prince of Anuridhapura, who had the title of Idipda In the
time of Nahinda IV (956-972), when a Vallabha ruler invaded Ngadpa,
the king sent an army from &nurdhapura to fight him. Nahinda' a
troops were able to free that part of the kingdom from the
South Indian invader In the eleventh century, Vijayabhu I restored
the ancient Jambukola vihira in N gadpa These references in
the Pli chronicle show that the northernmost part of the island
was considered to be an integral section of the Sinhalese
kingdom and treated as such by the rulers of Anurdbapura and
Polonnaruva. The evidence of the later inscriptions also shows
that in the twelfth century, too, Jaffna was under the control
of the Polonnaruva rulers. In that century, Parkramabhu I had
strong naval bases at ttuai (rtoa now layts), MaivLL
(Naffuvil) and VallikAmam (Val(kmam), all situated in the
western part of the Jaffna peninsula, According to the Tiruvlañgu
inscription of jdhirja Ca II (1178), Parkramabhu built
ships and assembled troopsin these places in order to launch
an attack on the Ca kimgdom A Tamil inscription from NaitTvu,
L. Cv., 448:155.
2. Ibid., 511:12-15; W.N.LWijetunga, 'Who was Vallabha, the invader
of North Ceylon', TJ.C.R., XX, pt.2, Oct. 1962, pp. 287-291.
3. Cv., 60:60.
44. V.Venkataaubba Liyyar, 'Tiruvalangadu Inscription of Rjdiiirja II',
E.I., xxxi, pp. 86-92.