Yalpana Vaipava Malai

Yalpana Vaipava Malai (Tamil: யாழ்ப்பாண வைபவமாலை) is a book written by a Tamil poet named Mayil Vaakaanar in Tamil மயில் வாகனார் 1736. This book contains historical facts of the early Tamil city of Jaffna. The book which may have been written around 1736 during the Governorship of 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.

The author says that he referred to the books Kailaya Malai, Vaiyai Padal and Pararajasekaran Ula for his work. It is said that these books are composed not earlier than the fourteenth century AD, contain folklore, legends and myths mixed with historical anecdotes. Today, except the Kailaya Malai which has been printed, and a few manuscript copies of Vaiya Padal, the other works are very rare and hardly procurable. The only manuscript of Yalpana Vaipava Malai itself was destroyed by the United National Party in May 1981 during the burning of the Jaffna library.

Yalpana Vaipava Malai is one of the rare books which contains facts about the Ariyachakravsrtis who ruled Jaffna, north Sri Lanka. It starts with the King Vibeeshana who ruled Sri Lanka after the Rama- Ravana war according to the Hindu epic Ramayana. Then it refers the Mahawamsa and discusses the Bengali Prince Vijaya and his brother's 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, who was the restorer of the ruined Koneswaram temple and tank at Trincomalee in 438, the Munneswaram temple of the west coast, and as the royal who settled ancient Vanniyars in the east of the island Eelam.

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