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Dem4a-paaji.ma (Tamil Port) was probably first applied to the
seat of the Tamil rulers in the northern region and then extended
to mean the whole of the Tamil kingdom. There is also another
Sinhalese name for the Tamil kingdom in an old K4aimpota (Book
of Boundaries). In this work, the whole of the northern kingdom
is referred to as J1vaama, as mentioned earlier This is the
only work mentioning this Tleme. Perhaps it was not widely used
by the Sinhalese.
The capital of the florthern kingdom, which we may
now call the Jaffna kingdom for purposes of convenience, is often
given in the early Tamil works of Ceylon as Ciiea1 or C4kai
nakar. These works, the Cekarica-ckara-mlai, Cekarca-ckaram
and the a-kai1ca-nlai, mgkp it clear that Cl ?ks( was
the place where the Xryacakravartins r.eided The only Tamil
inscription in the island mention4 ng an Xryacakravartin also
refers to C41ki-nakar as his seat Cikii is also mentioned,
along with Aurai (Anurldhapnra) in the inscriptions of
Arikari Parkrama PI 4ya (].k22-lk6l) 1 It is clear from these
references that ClMi or Ciki-n,kar was the capital of the
1. See aupra, p. lF&3
2. Ccm., v.36; Cekarlca-c!karam, quoted in the Cern., p.xiv,b. ;
., p.78, v. 109.
3. See supra, p . 4wk.
M.E.R. for 1912, No. 1i of 1912.