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

Pad! and Kurund, as we have noted earlier, are Padaviya and
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Kuruntanttr in northern Ceylon. Possibly not az€L the Taniil
mercenaries of Candrabhnu were from South India. Re may have
recruited some from the northern parts of Ceylon, oo. If
Candrabhnu had a kingdom in Ceylon, this must have been in
the northern region of the island rather than in any other
part. It was probably the forerunner of the Tamil kingdom of
Jaffna which was ruled in the fourteenth century by a line
of lnga called the Aryacakravartins. The evidence of certain
place names in the Jaffna district, revealing Jvaka association,
also points to the conclusion that it was in northern Ceylon
that the vakas had some sort of authority at any time in
the history of the island. There are at least two village
nawes in the Jaffna district with the element Jvaka.
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Cvaka-cri (Jvaka-cri = Jvaka settlementand CvkVçai
(Cvaka k
t ai - Jvaka kai = Jvaka fort). These two names,
stifl in use, find mention in the the
Kkila-sanda and in some of the Linhalese Kaaimpotas (Boundary
Books) It appears that the Jaffna pen4nula and some parts of
the Jaffna and Hullaitvu districts had the territorial name
Jvagama. This name OCCU8 in one of the Sinhalese Kaaimpotas
1. Yvm., p. 60; Rkila-sanda, y.Jo ; Tn Siha Kaaim saha
Vitti, ed. A.J.W.I.rambe, 1926, p. 21. 5. 1acv"I, )-o4..
2. Tn Sii.ha Kaaim saha Vitti, op. cit., p.21.