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The book is one of the rare books which contains facts about the Ariyachakravsrtis who ruled Jaffna and some parts of what is now north Sri Lanka. It starts with The King Vibeeshana who ruled Sri Lanka after the Rama Ravana war according to the hindu epic of Ramayana. Then it refers the Mahawamsa and states about the Bengali prince Vijaya and his son Panduvasan, the rulers from north India. Chronicles such as the Yalpana Vaipava Malai and stone inscriptions like Konesar Kalvettu recount that Kulakkottan, an early Chola king and descendant of Manu Needhi Cholan, was the restorer of the ruined Koneswaram temple and tank at Trincomalee in 438 AD, the Munneswaram temple of the west coast, and as the royal who settled ancient Vanniyars in the east of the island Eelam. According to Yalpana Vaipava Malai the history of Jaffna starts with a blind musician called Panan or Yalpadi. He received a land called Manatri from the ruler of Sri Lanka. Manatri was renamed as Yalpanam by Panan.
Then it comes with the Koolangai Chakravarti who was the ruler of Jaffna after Panan. It further states about the Formation of Nallur, arrival of tamils, and other kings of Jaffna.
According to Yalpana Vaipava Malai, during the eighth century Ugrasinghan, a prince of the dynasty of the legendary Vijaya, coming with an army from India, descended upon Sri Lanka and captured one half of the Island. He established his capital first at Katiramalai, known now as Kantarodai, and then shifted it to Singhai Nagar, a town on the eastern coast of the Jaffna Peninsula. Though the story of Ugrasinghan has generally been rejected by scholars," some are of the view that this story is "based on a historical fact", namely that Ugrasinghan has been confused with Manavamma who was helped by the Pallava King Narasinghavarman.
After stating facts about the Potugese rule the history ends with some facts of the Dutch rule.
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