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

We may now sumniiriae the main conclusionsoof the
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foregoing discussion. In the first place, the date of the
foundation of the Jaffna kingdom cannot be traced exactly.
That this took place between 1236 and 1262 appears to be
more or less certain. It was probably between 136 and 1258,
possibly between 1236 and 12k7 that it was founded. Zgha and
his followers who seem to have been defeated some time after
126, in all probability, shifted their seat of government
further north to the Jaffna peninsula, and founded a new
kingdom. The Jvaka invader Candrabhnu appears to have
found his way to the throne of this kingdom some time after
12k7. Re was probably subdued by Sundara P4ya around
1258. and killed by V!ra Pya in 1262. It was probably his
son who was allowed to be crowned in full regal style as
the ruler of the northern kingdom in 1262, under the
protection of Vtra Pya.
Whatever the uncertainties regarding the begin.nings
of the northern kingdom may be, the circtunstances that led
to its foundation are 14 .d.ifficult to understand. In the
first place, the foreign invasions of the thirteenth century
played a significant part in paving the way for the rise of
an independent kingdom in northern Ceylon. The invasion of
gha led to the control of northern Ceylon by Ier4a and
Tmil elements and possibly some from Kalizga like Coagaiga.