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

emend the epithet of 4rirar k5a in the abovs vere. and to clai
North Indian origin for the riyacaavartina on that basis.
Besides, the authenticity of the veres under diectesion is open
to question. It would not be inappropriate to quote here
Paranayita.na's own comments, in an .arlier section of the same
article, on this and another verse attributed to Puka3nti in
the Tami].-nva1ar-carit ai:
498
it may be stated that the anthology in question is a
recent compilation in which stray verses attributed t
by tradition to various poets, together with anecdotes
about the poets, have been collected togeth.r. It is a
work of the same tpe as the Sanakrit Bhojaprabandha,
and in the attribution made in suck works have to be
critically .rm(ned before they are accepted as correct.
Th. verses in qi.stion do not occur in any of the works
which are attested to be of Pu]anti .............
Nilknta Sastriialso admits that works with little
or no claim to literary merit have been fathered on
Puk flnti. It thus follows that the verses attributed
to Pn1rnti are not beyond question from the hand of
that poet, and that his date too is a matter of controversy,
literary crtticG being inclined to place him in the
lat. thirteenth century. 1
In addition to the doubt that has to be cast on the authenticity
of the verse, there is nothing in it to indicate that the
Iriyar knf referred to then, was none other than an lryacakravartin.
Finally, Paranavitana adduces th. evidence of de Queyroz
who mentions that the Br1a ancestors of the ryacakravartina
came from Gujanit. In this instance, despit. th. many obvious °'
1. S.Paranavitan&, 'The irya Xiugdoa in North Ceylon', p . l7.