Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c8.37

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| No. | Name | Description | Reference | Identification |
| 118 | Nāgadīpa | An island : it was on one side of Tambapaṇṇi and the river Kalyāṇi was on the other ; it came on the way of the mariners from Bharukaccha to Suvaṇṇabhūmi. | II, 128 ; III, 187-8 ; IV, 238. | The name of this island occurs in the Mahābhārata and the Purāṇas as one of the 9 divisions of India (or rather Greater India). C. A. G. I., pp. 8-9 ; and App. 1. Unfortunately it has not been definitely identified ; Gerini's identification of it with Ceylon is not conclusive : Researches on Ptolemy's Geography, p. 380 ; Cf. J. C. A. S., 1848, p. 71 ; Tennett Ceylon etc., I, pp. 331-2 and notes ; Senaveratana, The Story of the Sinhalese, I, p. 2, the Nile and made a navigation from the Red Sea into the Mediterranean possible. The canal ceased to exist in the next millennium, as in 609 B. C., Necho started building another canal without success. J. B. O. R. S., VI, p. 195. |