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LIFE IN ANCIENT INDIA
A grass-cutting wooden instrument known as kuliya, was in use in Surattha. It measured two hands and had iron nails fixed at the end with an iron plate attached to it 809 It is said that the corn kangu was available in this country in plenty and rice was caten in its absence 910
Surattha comprises modern Kathiawar and other portions of Gu
jerat 811
Sūrodaya-a city
The town was located in Veyaddha the lord of Vijjāharas of the town $12
Its site is not known.
Indadhanu is mentioned as
Suttivai or Suttimati-a city
Suttivai was the capital of Cedi, one of the twenty five and a half Āryan countries
It is the Suktımati or Suktisahvaya of the Alahābhārata. The Vlahābharata also mentions a river by the name of Suktimati, which is said to break through the Koláhala hills and flow by the ancient kingdom of Cedi Pargitar identifies the inver with the modern Ken and places Suktımati neai the modern town of Banda 813
Suvannabhūm -a county
It is stated that Suvannabhūmi vals 15lcd by Usabha See Adamba! and also by Ajja Kālaga , the latter is said to have arrı cd here to scc his grand-disciplc from Cjeni '14 Suvannabhūmi and Sihala dīva are cited as examples of lisandina diva which did not overflow by periodical sea-tideli Câiudatta is said to have reached here in goat's skin ajena= zastrena) 816
According to the Vasudevahindī, it was situated near the mountain Veyaddha 817
Suvannabhūmı is identical with lower Burma, Pegu and Moulmein districts 818
300 Visi cū, p 53 (MSS) $10 Ibid 2, p 129 (MSS) $11 CGIP 697 , GEBPJS 813 Ilarā 18 P 247 819 (Dp 196 814 Ta ci, Il, p 25 815 Acaci, p 224. $16 Süya Ti, 1 11, p 196 817 P 149. $18 G. E, B, p. 70.
