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riyar, Lakkum4a DvanIya)cn, and Lekkum4a Iapijii They
were assigned a certain extent of laud by the local village
assembly and required to cultivate it and pay taxes to the
temple at Tiru-kuttilam. Ws do not know who the Tem{. iriyar
were and how they got that name. But the fact that they were
called T&flLt I 4riyar shows that some people from among the Tmila.
were also known as 4riyar in the thirteenth century. Therefore,
one cannot be too sure that the element Irya in the name
*ryacakravartin denotes North Indian origin beyond any doubt.
The second srgument of Paranavitana that it is the fact of
their ancestor belonging to the class of irya BrThmaas that
would have conferred on the 'Zryacakravartine, if they were
Brhn4as, the title of riya, is certainly a possibility,
although it is only an assumption. Thirdly, his coutentiom
that the North Indian origin of these rulers is 'admitted
also by the Cekar1ca-ckara-nilai, for it says that they came
with Pma', is wrong. This Tamil work clearly states that
Rma built the temple of RImvaram on his way back from
Ceylon, 'invited five hundred and twelve PIupatas'(Pcupatark4
1. ?4.E.R. for 1918, No. 1126 of 1917. The astronomical data in this
record corresponds to October 29, 125k, but there seems to be
a mistake somewhere for )avarma Vikrama PIyas accession
was in 1283 (Ibid., p. 112).