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the north. 1gha presumably 5et up a new capital somewhere in
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northern Ceylon, probably in Jaffna, and exercised authority
in that region. We do not know what fate eventually overtook him
and it is useless to surmise on this point. He probably died a
natural death and was succeeded by someone else. In all
probability this new kingdom of northern Ceylon is the same
as that ruled by the Tvaka prince around 1262. It is not known
how a Jvaka came to be on the throne of a kingdom in northern
Ceylon. As we are inclined to identify the Jvaka of the
Pya inscriptions with Candrabhnu, it is possible to
conjecture that this I'a1ay ruler, after his defeat at the bands
of the Sinhalese, fled to the northern kingdom. In course of
time, by some means he was in a position to succeed to the
throne.there. Probably he won the favour of Mgha, if he was
still living at that time, and succeeded him. Or, it is possible
that be was able to wrest power from the ruler of the northern
kingdom. If such was the course of events, it would appear that
it was as ruler of the northern kingdom that Candrabhnu launched
his second attack on the Sinhalese kingdom, which turned out
to be fatal to him. After his death, his son ascended the throne
as a feudatory of the PIyas with the blessings of Jatvarman
YTra Pya. This reconstruction of the events in northern
Ceylon seems to fit the meagre and vague information that we are
able to extract from our epigraphic and literary sources, chiefly