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Adam's Bridge, [a] also known as Rama's Bridge or Rama Setu, [c] is a chain of natural limestone shoals between Pamban Island, also known as Rameswaram Island, off the southeastern coast of Tamil Nadu, India, and Mannar Island, off the northwestern coast of Sri Lanka. Geological evidence suggests that the bridge was formerly a land connection ...
Adam's Bridge, also known as Rama Setu or Ram Setu, a chain of natural limestone shoals between India and Sri Lanka, perhaps formerly constituting a land bridge Rama Setu (Ramayana), a bridge built by Rama as described in the Ramayana, identified with Adam's Bridge; Sethubandhanam, another term for the above; Ram Setu, 2022 Indian film about ...
Adam's Bridge with Mannar Island in the foreground. An Integrated Strategic Environmental Assessment of Northern Province produced by the government with the assistance of United Nations Development Programme and United Nations Environment Programme and published in October 2014 recommended that a national park with an area of 18,990 ha (46,925 acres) be created on the Sri Lankan section of ...
The name Rama's Bridge or Rama Setu (Sanskrit; setu: bridge) refers to the bridge built by the Vanara (ape men) army of Rama in Hindu mythology, which he used to reach Lanka and rescue his wife Sita from the demon king Ravana. [31] The Ramayana attributes the building of this bridge to Rama in verse 2–22–76, naming it as Setubandhanam. [32]
Ram Setu (transl. The bridge of Rama) is a 2022 Indian Hindi-language action-adventure film [5] directed by Abhishek Sharma.The film stars Akshay Kumar, Jacqueline Fernandez, Nushrratt Bharuccha and Satya Dev and follows an archeologist who is investigating the nature of Ram Setu (known as Adam's Bridge in English).
The chain of low islands and reefs known as Adam’s Bridge or Rama Setu (Rama’s Bridge), which includes Mannar Island, separates the Gulf of Mannar from Palk Bay, which lies to the north between India and Sri Lanka.
The driver of a Tesla that police said left a crash in which another vehicle rolled over and fell off the Roosevelt Bridge was arrested, records show. ... Adam Alaoui, 21, of the 2200 block of ...
The strait consists of many islands and is interspersed with a chain of low islands and reef shoals that are collectively called Ram Setu or Adam's bridge. [2] As per the Hindu epic Ramayana, the bridge was purportedly constructed by the vanara army of Rama to rescue Rama's wife Sita from the Asura king Ravana. [3]