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Jaffna Kingdom
Jaffna Kingdom was a historically important regional power in medieval Sri Lanka. Yazhpanam the tamil word for Jaffna is derived from Yal and Paanam meaning land of the lute player alluding to a myth of a blind musician receiving the land as a royal grant.
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