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Ctn-Ivalar, meaning 'Protectors of the CTtu' (RImvaram)
In th. Ta4ia-.kaiIIca.-pn±4am,
an 4ryaca1avartin is referred
tp as Tvaiyinma ( King of Tvai, i.e. RImvaram) and C!tu
uyar karai kva1 vnta ( the Guardian King of the Nigh Coast of
C!tu) Tradition has it that the kings of Jaffna used to send
flowers and milk for the daily services at the temple of RIn!varam
from some of the illands of! the coast of Jaffzia The epithets
Ctu-kivala and T!vaiyi-ma, say not imply any control of the
Rimvaram area by the rulers of Jaffna. We are inclined to
agree with Paranavitana. that these were inherited from the
earlier Iryacakravartins ofT!!Iad. Tb. rulers of Jaffna probably
continied to be closely associated with the temple at RZntvaraa
and considered themselves to be its lawful protectors.
We may, therefore, conclude that the Jaffna kingdom
was mainly confined to the peninsula of Jaffna and the islands
adjoln lr g it. It had some sort of suzerainty over the Vanni
chieftaincies of northern Ceylon, probably those that th
were in the modern Northern Province.
Thus, with the advent of the iryacakravartine, a
stable Tamil ringdom came into existence in the northernmost part
of Ceylon. As we have mentioned, earlier, the foundation. of this
1. See aupra,
2. ., Tiruna1rara Carnkks m , iv. 107, 116.
3. A.}uttuttampi Pillai, 4a-carittiram, (1912), p. 52.