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need not be questioned. Codrington's identification that the
Liya mercenaries vho were in the service of VijaabThu IV
were Ijputa ma well be accepted. As Paranavitana has stat.d,
it is quite poeøible that there were jput soldiers in South
India, too, at this time. But Rljput$ were not the only
Iryas known in South India in the thirteenth century. The
South Indian inscriptions refer to different grotipe of people
who were known as Iryas, all of whom cannot be identified as
Rljpnts. As mentioned earlier, an ii$ecription from Iuttlam
refers to two Ta mil riyar, who appear to have been cultivators
Another from Taujore, dated in th. fifth year of Eu]Zttu.dga
Ca, probably the third, refers to the Mah5vara Iryas who
were attached to a. templ. Besides the inscriptions of
JaraYarma Sundara Piya mentioning th. ryae of Xudugr,
another record of th. same monasch, found at Cidambarani, alludes
to the defeat of the 'fierce army of riyar' (Tern paai riyar)
Another Piya record x.fers to order authorising certain
Iriyar to guard the gold treasury (kval) of the temple of
1. See eupra, P.
2. M.E.R. for 1918, No. 23 of 1918.
3. N.E.R. for 1893. No. 172 of 1092.