Yalpana Vaipava Malai
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Yalpana Vaipava Malai (
Jan Maccara, the then Dutch Governor of Jaffna
. 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.
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The author says that he referred to the books burning of the Jaffna library.[1]
Contents
Yalpana Vaipava Malai is one of the rare books which contains facts about the
According to Yalpana Vaipava Malai the history of Jaffna starts with a blind musician called Panan or Yalpadi. He received a land called
Pallava King Narasinghavarman. After stating some facts about the Portuguese rule of Ceylon
, the book ends with some facts of the Dutch rule.
References
- ^ Knuth, Rebecca (27 June 2006). "Destroying a Symbol: Checkered History of Sri Lanka's Jaffna Public Library" (PDF). IFLA. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
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- ^ Schalk, Peter (2002). "Buddhism Among Tamils in Pre-colonial Tamilakam and Ilam: Prologue. The Pre-Pallava and the Pallava period". Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. 19–20. Uppsala University: 159, 503.
The Tamil stone inscription Konesar Kalvettu details King Kulakottan's involvement in the restoration of Koneswaram temple in 438 A.D. (Pillay, K., Pillay, K. (1963). South India and Ceylon);
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