113992242-Dravidian-Settlements-in-Ceylon-and-the-Beginnings-of-the-Kingdom-of-Jaffna-By-Karthigesu-Indrapala-Complete-Phd-Thesis-University-of-London-1965

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that C1rai was another name for TIpIpauna. But there is one
difficulty. The mention of Aurai, which in these inscriptions,
as in the Koaga.ma inscription, evidently refers to the Sinha.lese
capital of the time of the epigrapha, shows that C1jai could.
very well have been the name of an earlier capita]. of the
Jaffna. kingdom applied by South Indians, by mistake, to flplp4una
as well. This is possible but unlikely. The evidence of de
queyroz appears to go against such a possibility. According to
him, when the Portuguese landed at Koumputtuai, about two miles
from Jaffna town, in 1590 and marched towards Nallr, they had
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to get past a stockade by the name of Chunguinaynar. We are
inclined. to agree with Gnanapragasar that this name is a corruption
of CiMr i i-nakar Thia may indicate that Ci1i-nakar was in the
vicinity of Nallr. In the sixteenth century, the name C(1c.1nakar
was probably zised only for a fortified section of the capital.
Before the court was shifted to Nallar, the Jaffna rulers may
have held. their court in this place. Ci ?kii and IIpIpauna may,
therefore, be considered as one and the same place. The silence
of the later chronicles regarding tbeexistence of a capital called
C4-'ai-nakar also points in the same direction. It i. not likely
1. P.ae Queyrom, . ., p.k52;
2. S.Gnanapraga.ear, pa-vaipava-vimarcan, p.68.