Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c9.s8.17

c9.s8.17

The great rivers furnished another means of communication and some facilities of transport. There were fording places and the streams and water courses were crossed by means of boats, which are denoted by the words nāvā, agaṭṭhiyā⁷⁵ antaraṇḍakagoliyā (canoes), koñcavīraga⁷⁶ and the boats having the shape of an elephant’s trunk⁷⁷ and leather bag (daīya, com. dṛti) and goat skin.⁷⁸