Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c5.t4.58

Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jātaka Stories c5.t4.58

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c5.t4.58

In the *Valāhassa-Jātaka*,⁴ which reminds us of the sirens and other akin creatures, we are told the fate of five hundred ship-wrecked traders, who fall in the hands of she-goblins (*yakkhinīs*) in Tambapaṇṇi or Ceylon. Again in the *Saṅkha Jātaka*⁵ we have a figure of a ship-wrecked man on a voyage from Benares to Suvaṇṇabhūmi or Lower Burma in search of wealth. In the *Silanisamsa Jātaka*⁶ we see a sea-faring nymph as helmsman bringing ship-wrecked people from off the sea to Benares by river.

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Jātaka — Pāli