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also seen that the aa of the inscriptions of )avarma Sundara
PIya I may refer only to the northern {ndoa The inscriptions
of the Vijayanagara period, too, refer to the nortber{'dom
of Ceylon as am From about the beginn ing of tb lnof
Earihar* II (acc. 1377), JaZfna was subdued by_the Vlj&yanagara
rulers. But the subjugation of Jaffna is regard& in_the earlier
inscriptions and literary works, anch as the Nria4T-vilIsam,
as the conquest or re-conquest of Cey1on But in the fifteenth
century, the name flppIam came to be applied to the northern
kingdom and am was reserved for the Linhalese kingdom in the
south. Thus, we see for the first time a Vi4ayngara.i4scription
from Iakri, dated aka 1357 (A.D. 1k35), referring, to the
northern and southern kingdoms as IIppIam and. am.respectively
The name TIppe m suBt have gained currency in the liLteenth
century. In all the grants of the Setnpatis of Bmnad the
northern bingdom is referred to as !1ppIam or flppa-tcam
(the land of !ppiam) In the Portuguese works, the ugdoa is
1. See supra, p.
2. LE.R. for 1918, Woe. 128 and 13k; M.E.R. for 1923, No. 92 of 1923.
3 S.Krishnaswamy A.iyangar, Sources of Vifayanagara History, p. 153;
U.C.H.C., I, pt. 2, p. 687.
k. LE.L for 1901, No. 128 of 1901; S.1.1., VII, No. 778.
5. See enpra, P"i-iC