The Historical Inscriptions of Southern India (collected till 1923) and Outlines of Political History c8.442

c8.442

[Mahinda V, king of Ceylon, came to the throne in this year according to the revised chronology. The island, however, lay under the heel of invaders from the Kēraḷa country of the Malabar Coast and the ‘Karṇāṭaka’—perhaps Tamils—and following an insurrection Mahinda fled to Rohana after a nominal rule of twelve years. (Mahāwaṃsa, ch. 55.)]