Adam's Bridge, also called Rama's Bridge is a chain of limestone shoals, between the islands of Mannar, near northwestern Sri Lanka, and Rameswaram, off the southeastern coast of India. The bridge is 30 miles (48 km) long and separates the Gulf of Mannar (southwest) from the Palk Strait (northeast). Some of the sandbanks are dry and the sea in the area is very shallow, being only 3 ft to 30 ft (1 m to 10 m) deep. This seriously hinders navigation. It was reportedly passable on foot up to the 15th century until storms deepened the channel: temple records seem to say that Rama%u2019s Bridge was complete above sea level until it broke in a cyclone in 1480 AD.
RE:Check wikipedia
by kan on Apr 16, 2007 07:23 PM Permalink
From the same link....
However, NASA has distanced itself from the claims related to the epic Ramayana:
"The images may be ours, but their interpretation is certainly not ours. Remote sensing images or photographs from orbit cannot provide direct information about the origin or age of a chain of islands, and certainly cannot determine whether humans were involved in producing any of the patterns seen."[2]
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by on Apr 16, 2007 09:06 PM Permalink
True. It is just that it is likely that the chain already existed, and humans wrapped a story around it. Perhaps during Rama's time (or equivalent sb's time), there was a crossing possible, and later it was given mythological twists.
