The 'Ramayana' bridge

This is a two year old story, but worth knowing. I somehow had missed this one, and considering the many rounds this one is making around as chain mails, its probably more than worth mentioning.

As it goes in Ramayana, Rama, with the help of the Hanuman and his Vaanara sainya (army) constucted a large bridge to cross the sea to Lanka to rescue his wife Sita from the clutches of Ravana.

In 2002, NASA Shuttle images showed that the historic bridge in fact exists even to this day probably aged around 1,750,000 years! But call it irony, its been named 'Adam's bridge' :P

Curiously, I searched around the JSC Digital Library of NASA. I found these:

• http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/photo.pl?mission=STS033&roll=74&frame=74
• http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/photo.pl?mission=STS033&roll=78&frame=73

More here. You can take the id of the photo and look it up here on the JSC Library.

Another nice place to find some maps of India is this one [rove.to].

For anything, its a nice thing to have some pointers that say "Ramayana was not just mythology... it was reality as well" :)

UPDATE: (feb 16, 2005) How about an adventure game on Ramayana? ;)