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It is, therefore, explained that the 'historians who wrote under
Parkraniabhu II would thus have reckoned }1gha'e reign as
having terminated with the accession of their sovereign, even
though IZgha continued to maintain his position in the Rjaraha
for several years after This seems to be a reasonable e
explanation, for the silence of our sources regarding the fate
of Igha casts some doubt as to whether his reign really ended
in the year when Parkramahãhu's accession took place. 1f
?4gha had died or left Ceylon in that year, the chronicles
would not have failed to mention this. It is, therefore, very
likely that gha continued to rule even after 1236, although
the Sinhalese historians did not recognise him as a legal ruler
of Ceylon after that date.
This brings us to the question of when }Zgha's rule
really ended. Paranavitana and Liyanagamage are inclined to
think that )gha continued to rule in Polonnaruva until 3255
and that he was finally defeated by the Sinhalese armies in that
year Paranavitana bases his arguments on two considerations.
Firstly, he says: 'the Pjvaliya definitely states that igha
bad been ruling at Polonnaruva for forty years before he was
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1. U.C.H.C., I, pt. 2, p. 8119.
2. Ibid., p. 621 ; A.Liyanagarnage, .