The 'Ramayana' bridge

    February 8, 2005 - 06:56 — admin

    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.

    Ramayana Bridge, Nasa Shuttle picture

    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:

    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? ;)

    Comments

    February 9, 2005 - 06:55 — sham (not verified)

    You are right. You should read the whole RAMAYANA. (before comme

    You are right. You should read the whole RAMAYANA. (before commenting)
    Hanuman was not the only monkey to go to SriLanka. The whole army of Rama had to go to SriLanka to fight. Not everyone could fly :)

    February 8, 2005 - 14:33 — oso (not verified)

    Crazy. I gotta read the whole ramanaya one of these days.

    Crazy. I gotta read the whole ramanaya one of these days. I thought Hanuman was a flying monkey. I know if I was a flying monkey I wouldn't spend so much time building a big ass bridge. But to each their own I guess.

    February 9, 2005 - 07:03 — hpnadig (not verified)

    oso >> I guess you haven't read Ramayana properly or you might'

    oso >>
    I guess you haven't read Ramayana properly or you might've just been through some comic book that probably portrayed it all wrong.
    First off, in the epic, there was a huge army to be marched over to Lanka. And as in the epic again, Hanuman *does* fly to Lanka before constructing the bridge!
    I guess you should start looking back at what you call you read in "whole", you probably would'nt have...

    February 13, 2005 - 22:17 — André Müller (not verified)

    Hello there, I found your blog through Wikipedia... I am collect

    Hello there, I found your blog through Wikipedia... I am collecting the name of the number 47 ("forty-seven") in as many languages as possible, but I don't have Kannada yet. Here's what I have collected so far:
    http://www.livejournal.com/users/n_true/273399.html
    It would be extremely kind of you to write me a comment into my LiveJournal with the translation (and the transcription) of the word.

    Thanks in advance,
    - André (N-true on Wikipedia)

    February 14, 2005 - 18:27 — Sudarshan (not verified)

    Interesting....but you cant ta

    Interesting....but you cant take everything at face value....the bridge could have been a fact but there are so many other things which has been written by winners....so you can expect a lot of exaggerated stuff.

    February 14, 2005 - 18:36 — Sudarshan (not verified)

    Interesting...but as History i

    Interesting...but as History is often written by winners you cant take everything at face value...the bridge might be a fact but there are many exaggerated stuff.....what our great writers were trying to convey was mostly about ethics and morals and everything else might or might not be true.

    February 14, 2005 - 19:29 — hpnadig (not verified)

    Interesting….but you cant take everything at face value….the

    Interesting….but you cant take everything at face value….the bridge could have been a fact but there are so many other things which has been written by winners….so you can expect a lot of exaggerated stuff.

    yes, true. But looking at how Ramayana gets ruled dryly as just *mythology* by most, this should be of great significance. Its true that all thats in Ramayana can't probably be believed. As it is said, things get added to the story with time.
    Talking on the same lines, this paper by Subash kak throws light on how mahabharatha epic grew in its size and content. It also has analysis of the timeline of Mahabharata - a good one, sounds very sensible.

    February 16, 2005 - 10:40 — sham (not verified)

    mahabharatha a toned down to real life and real characters: dr.

    mahabharatha a toned down to real life and real characters: dr. s l bhairappa's 'parva'