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Jaffna kingdom in the early period of its existence. The later
chronicles, however, do not mention Ci-Mai as the capital of
the Taniil.kingdom, although these refer to the Iryacakravartins
as C lcpi Ariyas The ppa-vaipava-n1ai and the Iailyanlai
give Na111r as the capital of the first iryacakravartins Na1].r
is not mentioned in any of the earlier Tamil works or in inscriptions.
It has, therefore, been suggested that C1?ik2i-nkr was the first
capital and. NallUr the second capital, established in the fifteenth
century after the conquest of the 11ngdom by Sapumal EunrayI
The Linhalese works of the fifteenth century refer to the seat
of the Jaffna rulers as TIppauna The fourteenth-century traveller
Ibn Batuta states that he visited an ryacakravartin at Battala,
which some have attempted to identify with Putta].am, on the
western coast of the island But the topographical details
furnished by the Muslim traveller show$ that this town was
somewhere to the north of Manr. Probably Ibu Batuta was referring
to !IE1pauna. The element una in this name has the variants
anama and ffa1ama_in Sinhalese In fact1 de Queyroz gives
1. Tym., p. 27.
2. Ibid., p. 26; !!• p. 7.
3. S.Gnanapragaaar, pp. 106-107.
k. See supra, p. 1frD.
5. S.Gnanapragasar, pa-vaipava-vimarcana, p. 88.
6. S.Paranavitana, 'The Irya ingdom in North Ceylon', p. 211, fn.136.