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is not difficu].t to explain. The Tamil rendering of the Sinhalese
name would have been used only in literary works while the old
Sinha].ese name would have continued to be used by the orthary
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people in its Tamilieed form of Vl4i
mai, which is still
current. Such a practice is in keeping with Ind{n literary
tradition. In the Ceylonese chronicles, we find that very often
Sinhalese names are rendered in Phi, as for instance Mahltittha
for Etoa. However, neither C4ra1nIu nor N aiçal and its
variants appear to have been commonly used as the name of the
northern kingdom. Th*r disappearance in the later literary
works supports this conclusion. We are inclined to agr.e with
Gnanapragasar that this northern kingdom was lmown as am or
Ili Akai, without any special epithets to distinguish it from the
southern kingdom. The Taki4a-kailIca-1,uriam refers to a
CekarIca-ckara,, one of the rulers of Jaffna, as the king of
IlpMr2 i The Kai1hyanlai calls the first $rya ruler as
Teilei-m2mava (ling of IlMi in the South) The
Kuumiymz1ai inscription mentioned earlier refers to the ruler
of the northern kingdom as one of the kings of Ceylon We have
1. Tkp., Ciappupphyirain.
2. ., p. 6.
3. See supra,