High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Tissanayagam family some times also spelled Tissainayagam, is a Jaffna Tamil family descended from Tissanayaka Mudali of Mannanpulam Mathakal. Tissanayaka Mudali (circa 1730) was a Tamil Chieftain who lived during Dutch Times (1658–1798), The Tissanayagam's are an ancient Jaffna Tamil family with extensive land holdings in and around the town of Mathakal on the northern coast of Jaffna, in close proximity to Keerimalai (where the famous hot springs are located). There is also a tradition in the area of Mathakal that it was the landing spot of Vijaya of Kalinga (ancient Orissa) when he and his followers first arrived in Sri Lanka around 543BC, This story is given credence by the Mahavamsa which states that Vijaya and his followers kissed the soil as they landed on the Island. The red loam where they knelt down turned their palms to a copper colour, as a result of which they names the island "Tambapani”. Keerimalai is one of the places in...

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