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abbr{color:var(--color-base)!important}}@media print{.mw-parser-output .navbar{display:none!important}}</style><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:History_of_Sri_Lankan_Tamils" title="Template:History of Sri Lankan Tamils"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:History_of_Sri_Lankan_Tamils" title="Template talk:History of Sri Lankan Tamils"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:History_of_Sri_Lankan_Tamils" title="Special:EditPage/Template:History of Sri Lankan Tamils"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p> <b>Yalpana Vaipava Malai</b> (<a href="/wiki/Tamil_language" title="Tamil language">Tamil</a>: <span lang="ta">யாழ்ப்பாண வைபவமாலை</span>) is a book written by a Tamil poet named Mayil Vaakanaar (<a href="/wiki/Tamil_language" title="Tamil language">Tamil</a>: <span lang="ta">மயில் வாகனார்</span>) in 1736. This book contains historical facts of the early Tamil city of <a href="/wiki/Jaffna" title="Jaffna">Jaffna</a>. The book may have been written around 1736, during the Governorship of <a href="/wiki/Jan_Maccara" class="mw-redirect" title="Jan Maccara">Jan Maccara</a>, the then <a href="/wiki/Dutch_Ceylon" title="Dutch Ceylon">Dutch</a> <a href="/wiki/List_of_governors_of_Dutch_Ceylon" title="List of governors of Dutch Ceylon">Governor of Jaffna</a>. It was translated from Tamil by C. Brito, and was first published in 1879. The work is looked upon as one of great authority among the Tamils of Jaffna. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sources">Sources</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yalpana_Vaipava_Malai&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The author says that he referred to the books <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kailaya_Malai&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kailaya Malai (page does not exist)">Kailaya Malai</a></i>, <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vaiyai_Padal&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Vaiyai Padal (page does not exist)">Vaiyai Padal</a></i> and <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pararajasekaran_Ula&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pararajasekaran Ula (page does not exist)">Pararajasekaran Ula</a></i> for his work. It is said that these books are composed not earlier than the fourteenth century, contain <a href="/wiki/Folklore" title="Folklore">folklore</a>, <a href="/wiki/Legend" title="Legend">legends</a> and <a href="/wiki/Myths" class="mw-redirect" title="Myths">myths</a> mixed with historical <a href="/wiki/Anecdote" title="Anecdote">anecdotes</a>. Today, except the <i>Kailaya Malai</i> which has been printed, and a few manuscript copies of <i>Vaiya Padal</i>, the other works are very rare and hardly procurable. The only manuscript of <i>Yalpana Vaipava Malai</i> itself was destroyed by the <a href="/wiki/United_National_Party" title="United National Party">United National Party</a> in May 1981 during the <a href="/wiki/Burning_of_the_Jaffna_library" class="mw-redirect" title="Burning of the Jaffna library">burning of the Jaffna library</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Contents">Contents</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yalpana_Vaipava_Malai&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Contents"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Yalpana Vaipava Malai is one of the rare books which contains facts about the <a href="/wiki/Arya_Chakravarti" class="mw-redirect" title="Arya Chakravarti">Ariyachakravsrtis</a> who ruled Jaffna, north <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka" title="Sri Lanka">Sri Lanka</a>. It starts with the <a href="/wiki/Vibishana" class="mw-redirect" title="Vibishana">King Vibeeshana</a> who ruled Sri Lanka after the <a href="/wiki/Rama" title="Rama">Rama</a>- <a href="/wiki/Ravana" title="Ravana">Ravana</a> war according to the <a href="/wiki/Hindu" class="mw-redirect" title="Hindu">Hindu</a> epic <a href="/wiki/Ramayana" title="Ramayana">Ramayana</a>. Then it refers the <a href="/wiki/Mahawamsa" class="mw-redirect" title="Mahawamsa">Mahawamsa</a> and discusses the <a href="/wiki/Bengalis" title="Bengalis">Bengali</a> <a href="/wiki/Prince_Vijaya" title="Prince Vijaya">Prince Vijaya</a> and his brother's son <a href="/wiki/Panduvasdeva_of_Upatissa_Nuwara" class="mw-redirect" title="Panduvasdeva of Upatissa Nuwara">Panduvasan</a>, the rulers from <a href="/wiki/North_India" title="North India">north India</a>. Chronicles such as the <i>Yalpana Vaipava Malai</i> and <a href="/wiki/Stone_inscriptions_in_Sri_Lanka" title="Stone inscriptions in Sri Lanka">stone inscriptions</a> like <a href="/w/index.php?title=Konesar_Kalvettu&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Konesar Kalvettu (page does not exist)">Konesar Kalvettu</a> recount that <a href="/wiki/Kulakkottan" title="Kulakkottan">Kulakkottan</a>, an <a href="/wiki/Early_Cholas" title="Early Cholas">early Chola</a> king and descendant of <a href="/wiki/Manu_Needhi_Cholan" class="mw-redirect" title="Manu Needhi Cholan">Manu Needhi Cholan</a>, who was the restorer of the ruined <a href="/wiki/Koneswaram_temple" class="mw-redirect" title="Koneswaram temple">Koneswaram temple</a> and tank at <a href="/wiki/Trincomalee" title="Trincomalee">Trincomalee</a> in 438, the <a href="/wiki/Munneswaram_temple" title="Munneswaram temple">Munneswaram temple</a> of the west coast, and as the royal who settled ancient <a href="/wiki/Vanniyars" class="mw-redirect" title="Vanniyars">Vanniyars</a> in the east of the island <a href="/wiki/Eelam" title="Eelam">Eelam</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to Yalpana Vaipava Malai the history of Jaffna starts with a blind musician called Panan or Yalpadi. He received a land called <a href="/w/index.php?title=Manatri&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Manatri (page does not exist)">Manatri</a> from the ruler of Sri Lanka. Manatri was renamed as <a href="/wiki/Yalpanam" class="mw-redirect" title="Yalpanam">Yalpanam</a> by Panan. Then it comes with the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Koolangai_Chakravarti&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Koolangai Chakravarti (page does not exist)">Koolangai Chakravarti</a> who was the ruler of Jaffna after Panan. It further elaborates upon the Formation of <a href="/wiki/Nallur_(Jaffna)" class="mw-redirect" title="Nallur (Jaffna)">Nallur</a>, arrival of Tamils, and other kings of Jaffna. During the eighth century <a href="/w/index.php?title=Ugrasinghan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ugrasinghan (page does not exist)">Ugrasinghan</a>, 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 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Katiramalai&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Katiramalai (page does not exist)">Katiramalai</a>, known now as <a href="/w/index.php?title=Kantarodai&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kantarodai (page does not exist)">Kantarodai</a>, and then shifted it to <a href="/w/index.php?title=Singhai_Nagar&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Singhai Nagar (page does not exist)">Singhai Nagar</a>, a town on the eastern coast of the <a href="/wiki/Jaffna_Peninsula" title="Jaffna Peninsula">Jaffna Peninsula</a>. 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 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Manavamma&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Manavamma (page does not exist)">Manavamma</a> who was helped by the <a href="/wiki/Pallava" class="mw-redirect" title="Pallava">Pallava</a> King <a href="/wiki/Narasimhavarman_I" title="Narasimhavarman I">Narasinghavarman</a>. 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