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that Sin S4ghabodhi and Sil.megha were borne alternately by
Sinhalese kings as consecration names in much the same way as
Rjakari and Parakari were used by the Ca rulers. The
name rI Saghabodhi was used by several rulers from the time
of Aggabodhi II and it is not easy to identify the ruler of
our inscriptioriswith any one of them. But it is possible to
date the inscriptions on other grounds. The occurrence of the
terms kumrakaam and akkcu in these inscriptions is of some
help in this respect. The term kuxnrakaiam, referring to a group
or a corporation in the position of a board of managers or
trustees of single shnines does not occur in axy of the Tmi1
inscriptions of South India before the ninth century It appears
1. U.C.H.C., I, pt. 1, p. 365.
2. See _____
3. K.Kanapathi Pjllaj, A Study of the Language of the Tamil
Inscriptions of the Seventh and Eighth Centuries A.D., thesis
submitted to the University of London, 1936. Even the two early
as of South India, namely the u1ka4am and the amtagaa
find mention in the inscriptions only from te time of
Nandivarman III (8kk-866) and Aparjita (879-897) respectively,
C.Minaksbi, Administration and Social Life under the Pallavas,
pp. 130, 132.