Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c19.1484

c19.1484

It is stated that this land was situated at a distance of fifty *yojanas* to the south from the confluence of Sindhu and the Lavana ocean. It is said to be twelve and a half *yojans* in extension, three and a half *yojans* above sea water, and the shape of an elephant trunk. There were forty seven pitch dark caves here, of the shape of a crocodile (*ghadiyālaga-samthāna*). The inhabitants of this land were ugly, dreadful, greedy for honey and flesh, covetous of women and terrible fighters. They could move in water and their duration of life varied from twelve and a half nights to a large number of years (*samkhiyarasāu*). They possessed round and hollow boats (*antarandakagoliyāo*) and wandered in search of excellent jewels in the sea.