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

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found in his workAaeema
to b• recording a genuine tradition
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for we learn from inscriptions in Gujar&t that there was a
community of peopl, known as Iryas in th. time of the Pratihiras.
A Sansbit inscription of Kakkuka of the PratThlra dynasty,
dated in the Samvat year 918 (A.D.861) and found at GhaiyV.I,
a few miles north-west of Jodhpur, mentions 'that lciilrp
obtained great renown in the countries of Trava!, lTalla, Ma,
amongst (the people known as ) rya, in Gurjjattarl, and in Parvata
in the La country' Another inscription has a reference to
the AjJa, which D.R.iandarkar has equated with the L'ya ot the
first inscription It is possible that some of these Irya people
migrated to RImvaram after the Muslim invasions and the
Iryacakravartins may have been among the descebdants of these
people. Of the arguments put forward by Paranavitana in favour
of a North Indian origin of the Lyacakravartine, that based on
the evidence of do neyroz is the only convincing one.
The case presented by Paranavitana for the
identification of the ancestors of the ryacskravartins with
Rljputs rests entirely on th. identification of the Liy.kirhittiyas
of the C5lav4ia with Rjput mercenaries. The latter identification
1..., IX, Inscription No.38, pp . 277-281.
2. Ibid., p . 278.