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dynastic name. He is just called C4i1ca1 Iriya in the Xailyanflai.
and the At the end of the account of his
reign the a-vaipava-nilai gives Vic&ya K'tI]añkai CaJ dcavartti
and Kafikai Ariya as the other borne by Cii3.kai Iriya.
This confusion is not difficult to explain. In the historical.
traditions of Jaffna the Aryacakravartins have overshadowed all
earlier rulers of the Jaffna kingdom. At a time when these early
rulers were being forgotten, the name of Vicaya K%1'ikni may
have been still, lingering in the memory of the story-tellers,
who, ignorant of the identity of this person, may have identified
him with the first Ariya of Jaffna. We agree with Paranavitana
that the chronicles of Jaffna were 'written when the CiMti
riya,s had ceased to exist, at a time when, after the dynastic
name had been attached to the rulers of Jaffna for about three
centuries, the belief had gained ground that all rulers of that
kingdom bore that name' As a result of tn1drg Vicaya añkM
identical with the first Aryacakravartin, the accounts of their
two reigns bave also been mixed. It appears that somehow the
personality of 14gha, under the name of Vicaya ati, had
survived in the traditions of Jaffna.
I.. S.Paranavitaaa, 'The Arya Kingdom of North Ceylon', p. 203.
The Vaiypal also refers to Kkai as an riya, v. 57.