Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c19.1485

c19.1485

At a distance of three thousand and hundred *yojanas* from this land there lay the island of Rayanadīva. The inhabitants of this land filled their adamantine vessels (*varavanasilāsampudāim*), with honey and flesh, and returned to their homes in boats which were made of long wood of trees of the shape of an elephant trunk. A fight is stated to have taken place between them and the cave-men which resulted in the defeat of the latter.⁵⁹⁵