113992242-Dravidian-Settlements-in-Ceylon-and-the-Beginnings-of-the-Kingdom-of-Jaffna-By-Karthigesu-Indrapala-Complete-Phd-Thesis-University-of-London-1965

Re could very well have been mfnister of V!ra P4ya himself.
45k)
But probably he was a ninister of Parkramabhu who appealed
to the Pya ruler to intervene in the Ceylonese war. Such
an appeal would have been made to the Pya ruler because, as
we have indicatedk earlier, Candrabhnu was probably a tributary
of VTra Pya, at least in name if not in fact. The Pya
inscriptions claim that after the Jvaka was killed, V!ra
Pya ].evied tribute from the otber king' If this other king
was Parkramabhu, it would mean that the Siniialese ruler was
treated only as a subordinate ally. Raving successfully intervened
in the war and punished his recalcitrant tributary with death,
V!ra Pya raised the Jvaka's son to the throne of his father.
It is clear that the Pya monarch did not intervene in the
Ceylonese war as an ally of Parkramabhu with the intention of
conquering the vaka'a kingdom for the Sinhalese ruler. He
appears to have been settling a dispute between his own tributary,
who had become refractory, and. another subordinate ally, who too
was probably one of his tributaries. This is how we could possibly
interpret the evidence of the Sinhalese chronicles and the Pya
1. !ai vntanaj (ojher king) is the phrase used in the
Kuumiyn1ai inscription, LA.Nil&nta Sastri,'The Ceylon
Expedition of Javarman VTra Pya', . cit., p. 52k.