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(188 INDIA AS DESCRIBÉD" IN BARLY TEXTS 'Kalamukha may be identified with the Arakan coast and Suyanṇabhūmi may be lacated in Lower Burma. The next four places may be shown to correspond to Ptolemy's Chryse Chora, Besyngeitai, Berbai and Takkola. Tamali is identified by Sylvain Levi with Tāmralinga in Malay Peninsula. Tambapaņņi and Javą, are no other than Ceylon and the island of Java. Tho Apadănaexpressly mentions the visit, of merchants from Malaya (Malay Peninsula) and the distant land of Cīna (China).
It is difficult to say what the sea merchants traded upon and the nature of the articles of export ana import. The Suppāraka-Jätaka 8 shows that they made their fortune by collecting gems, corals, etc., from the seas. They appear to have traded also in muslins, the finer sorts of cloth, cutlery and armour, brocades, embroideries, perfumes, 'drugs, ivory works, jewellery and gold.
Within the country, produce was brought to markets for sale. Benares was one of the most important commercial centres. The other big cities also commanded a considerable amount of trade and exchange. Foodstuffs for the towns
1 R. O. Majumdar, Suvarnadvipa, p. 56f.; Lévi, Ptudes Asiatiques, Vol. II, Ch. II.
Apadána, i, p. 2.
No, 488. * Buddhist Indlin. p. 98.
