Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c8.81

c8.81

| No. | Name | Description | Reference | Identification |
| 204 | Seruma | An island inhabited by the Nāgas at that time—situated somewhere between Bharukaccha and Suvaṇṇabhūmi. It was famous for the fragrant Timira flowers. | III, 187, 189-G. 56. | The *Jātaka* says "Tasmin kāle Nāgadīpo Serumadīpo nāma hoti," i.e., the Nāga settlement was at that time called Serumadīpa. It can be easily inferred from this that the Nāgas had different settlements simultaneously or at different times. See Nāgadīpa. From the story we also learn that Seruma lay on the way from Bharukaccha to Suvaṇṇabhūmi or Lower Burma. I propose to identify it with the Paurāṇic Kaśerudvīpa located in the Malay Peninsula: C. A. the western coast of India." *Ibid* p. 132. It probably is identical with Śrīrājya or the later Gaṅga kingdom of Mysore: Raychaudhury, P. H. A. I., p. 64. See Telavāhā. |