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that they were scions of the PIya family. The Kai1yalai
statement may be an exaggeration. That the ancestors of the
Iryacakravartins of Jaffna cxnae from the Pya country is further
etidenced by certain traditions relating to them which are
recorded in the Cekarca-ckara-nlai • In the jappupiram
(introductory section) of this work, an eulogistic description
of the achievements of the ancestors of Cekarca-ckara, the
Jaffna ruler in whose time this work was composed, is given.
In this account, there is an allusion to 'the king who fought
and defeated the KrunI
Lkar (1Car1as) at Antaravalli' (ce
Karunakarai Antaravalliyil porutu ceyitta vntu) 1 and to 'the
king who, having dismembered the trunk of the rutting elephant
that dashed angrily towards him, defeated the Pc4a, (Boysaja)'
(i varum mata vam karam tuittu Pc4ai_katinta_vntu)
These two statements appear to be allusions to the achievements
of one person. It is not known that a ruler of Jaffna ever got
involved in a battle against the Hoys4as, the last of whom
ended his rule around l3k3 It is not possible that a ruler of
i1-
Jaffna carried out a succesful expedition against p powerful
Koys4as. The reference is evidently to an 4ryacakravartin of
1. Ccm., v.6.
2. Ibid.
3. K.A.Nilakanta Sastri, A History of South India, 1958, p. 231.