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was the case, the invasion of Iryacakravartin may not have resulted
in any control of the northern ldiigdom by him. On the other band,
if the northern ruler had been recalcitrant, the Piya genera].
may have subjugated him, oo, and begun to extend his authority
there. Thee. are matters of speculation. The suggestion that
this ryacakravartin. who invaded the Sinhalese kingdom around
128k was already a ruler of Jaffna is not acc.ptable The C!lavasa
specifically states that this general was 'sent with an army by
P.4u the five brothers, the kings who held sway in the realm'
and, having seized the Toots relic as well as other co.tly
treasures, he 'returned *th them to the Pa4 Ir4iigdom' The
PI].i chronicle clearly mentions that he was a 'Damia generai.'
If the L'yacakravartins did not capture power in northern Ceylon
around 128k, this event has to be dated to the time of the
Muslim invasion of the Pya country, when the forces of }ik
KafUr rode triumphkntly down to 1 !varani This was in 1310.
As Paranavitana has stggeeted, in the fateful years between the
first Muslim invasion of South India and. the establishment of
the Nadura Sultanate in 13k'i, the political confusion brought
1. C.Rasanayagam, . cit., p. 3kk.
2. Cv., 90:k3.
3. Ibid., 90:44,
4. K.A.Nilakta Sastri, The PIyan Kingdom, p. 206 if.