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

Svii would denote a person of Thvaka race. 'The final vowel
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ii (in sav4u) suggests the influence of Telugu which is known
to have been the language of the rulers of the vaka kingdom
in the Malay peninsula' Having thus derived Sav4u front Jva,
Paranavitana explains the m yrner in which An Iryacakravartin
came to bear the title of Sav4upati.
If, as we have demonstrated, )gha came front Malaysia
with a following of Malay warriors, and if he founded
a kingdom in the North, the ruling class of that kingdom
would have been Jvakae or And further, if an
Iriyan fro Rmvaram became master of this kingdom
as a result of a matrimonial alliance, the Jvakaa or
or Sav4u people would have referred to this
Lriyan and his descendants as their lord. 2
This seems to be a far-fetched theory. In the first place, the
identification of ?rttam of the ?davala inscription with
an ryacakravartin of Jaffna is not certain. Even if this is
granted, the derivation of Sav4u-pati from Jiva is rather
ingenious. It is true that Jiva is pronounced in Tamil as
Cva or SAva. But the analogy on which this is made the
first element of SAvAji is certainly wrong. MalayAi is
not derived from the two words Malaya and , but from MalaAam,
the Tamil name for Ker4a, meaning 'valley', in the same way
as Vki (BeñgAi) is derived from Vk.am (BagAa - Bengal).
1. S.Paranavitana, 'The irya Kingdom of North Ceylon', p. 199.
2. Ibid.