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53<br />

Whenever <strong>the</strong>se revolted ag{Tist <strong>the</strong> authority <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Jaffna</strong> ruler<br />

<strong>and</strong> attempted to support <strong>the</strong> S<strong>in</strong>halese rulers, <strong>the</strong> former took<br />

necessary steps to subjugate <strong>the</strong>m The S<strong>in</strong>halese Kaa<strong>in</strong>rpotas<br />

(Boundary Books) <strong>of</strong> about <strong>the</strong> fifteenth or sixteenth centurl<br />

refer to <strong>the</strong> territorial divisions <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> nor<strong>the</strong>rn k<strong>in</strong>gdom <strong>and</strong><br />

<strong>and</strong> mention that stone pillars with Ta<br />

il writ<strong>in</strong>g on <strong>the</strong>m were<br />

set up as boundary stones <strong>in</strong> those divisions But <strong>the</strong>se works<br />

give nei<strong>the</strong>r <strong>the</strong> boundaries <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Jaffna</strong> k<strong>in</strong>gdom nor a full<br />

list <strong>of</strong> all <strong>the</strong> territorial divisions .f <strong>the</strong>rCa%eaterritorial<br />

divisions <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Jaffna</strong> district are usually given along with<br />

<strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r divisions <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> whole <strong>of</strong> Pihiiraa (former RjaraHha).<br />

But one <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>se Kaa<strong>in</strong>rpotas, <strong>the</strong> Tn Si1ha Kaaim saha Vitti,<br />

has a reference that appears to be useful to our <strong>in</strong>quiry. This<br />

work mentions that <strong>in</strong> Jvagama <strong>the</strong>re were five ham districts,<br />

namely Javariparaa, )rac c i-naa, Balat a4i- .raa, I4udundu-ma lliyI..<br />

raa <strong>and</strong> K41kkii-r4a Some manuscripts give <strong>the</strong> form Cvagacri<br />

or Civagatc<strong>in</strong>i for Javaripa This has enabled <strong>the</strong> identification<br />

<strong>of</strong> Java.riparaa with <strong>the</strong> Clvakaccri region <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Jaffna</strong> pen<strong>in</strong>sula.<br />

1. pp. 38, 'io.<br />

2. Tn Si$h4! Kaaim saha Vitti, ed. A.J.W.Narambe, (1926), P. 21;<br />

S<strong>in</strong>i-lak Kaaimpota, ed. Sri Charles de Silva, (1961), pp. 22-23<br />

3. Tn Siha! Kaaim saha Vitti, . cit., p.<br />

k. S.Paranavitana, 'The Irys. K<strong>in</strong>gdom <strong>in</strong> North <strong>Ceylon</strong>', p. 195.

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