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CekarIca-ckara wielded authority. In Paranavitana's opinion,
Z4a4avai may have been an alternate name of Ci 1 i i If we turn
to the Tamil chronicles of Ceylon, we find that the ancient
Tm{1 name of the Jaffna peninsula was J(aai, ?aial
or N aijar. All three ar. variants of the same name. Paranavitana
and some other writers on the history of the Jaffna
kingdom have stated that M4alr and NaavUr also occur as
variants of these names But no references are given to the sources
where these occur. We have not been able to trace these two
variants in any of the Tamil chronicles. The pa-vaipavamlai
gives two of these forms, namely Ka4ar.a1 and I4aaiar
The akka4p-iya gives the two forms Naai and Maaiar
In addition, it gives two other names of the peninsula, namely
Naipuram and the older name IkatTpam (Pii 1gadTpa) The form
N4ari also occurs in a poem called ti-nlai-pfu This
form is evidently an abridgement of 1a4aiar or Naarial.
1. S.Paranavitana, 'The rya Xingdom in North Ceylon', p. 202.
2. Thid. ; C.S.Nayaratnam, Tamils and Ceylon, p. 75.
3. !z.• p. 9, 2k.
k. Mm., pp. iii, 14, 56.
5. Ibid., pp. J7, 51.
6. CItivnlaipiftu, quoted in A.Muttuttampi Pillai, !4acarittiram,
Jaffna, 1912, p. 1.