Yalpana Vaipava Malai

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Yalpana Vaipava Malai (

Jan Maccara, the then Dutch Governor of Jaffna. It's an historical and mythical account on the early and medieval Jaffna
and Ceylon island. 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.

Sources

The author says that he referred to the books

burning of the Jaffna library.[1] In the preface of its translation done in 1879, C. Brito mentions that several manuscript copies of the Yalpana Vaipava Malai were circulating in the Jaffna peninsula on that time (late 19th century).[2]

Contents

Yalpana Vaipava Malai is one of the rare books which contains facts about the

Vanniyars in the east of the island Eelam.[3][4]

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

  1. ^ Knuth, Rebecca (27 June 2006). "Destroying a Symbol: Checkered History of Sri Lanka's Jaffna Public Library" (PDF). IFLA. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
  2. ISBN 978-81-206-1362-1
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  3. doi:10.1080/09584939408719724
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  4. ^ 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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