Cosmography and Geography in Early Indian Literature c8.s1.29

c8.s1.29

61. About the following region, the course trending toward the east, lying out at sea toward the west is the island Palaesimundu (Pārasamudra), called by the ancients Taprobane (Tāmraparṇi, Ceylon). The northern part is a day’s journey distant, and the southern part trends gradually toward the west, and almost touches the opposite shore of Azania (Zanzibar coast-sic). It produces pearls, transparent stones, muslins and tortoise-shell.