[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] Yalpana Vaipava Malai is one of the rare books which contains facts about the Ariyachakravsrtis who ruled Jaffna, north Sri Lanka.
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.
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.