Sri Lankan text Mahavamsa. The Ramayana states that Ravana's Lanka was situated 100 Yojanas away from mainland India.

Some scholars have interpreted the content of these texts to determine that Lanka was located at the point where the Prime-Meridian of India passes the Equator. This island would therefore lie more than 100 mi southwest of present-day country of Sri Lanka. The most original of all the existing versions of Valmiki's