Turbinella

Manaar has been fished from the earliest times for the large chank shell, _Turbinella_ _rapa_, to be exported to India, where it is still sawn into rings and worn as anklets and bracelets by the women of

Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon James Emerson Tennent 1836

Three carved right-handed shells of Turbinella pyrum, see shankha

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[Footnote 1: _Turbinella rapa_, formerly known as _Voluta gravis_ used by the people of India to be sawn into bangles and anklets.] [Footnote 2: In 1845 an antique iron anchor was found under the soil at the northwestern point of Jaffna, of such size and weight as to show that it must have belonged to a ship of much greater tonnage than any which the depth of water would permit to navigate the channel at the present day.]

Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2) James Emerson Tennent 1836

It is more than once mentioned in the _Mahawanso_, ch.xi. p. 69; ch.xxx. p. 185.] [Footnote 2: A variety of the _Turbinella rapa_ with the whorls reversed, to which the natives attach a superstitions value; professing that a shell so formed is worth its weight in gold.]

Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2) James Emerson Tennent 1836