Thread - रामसेतु

Is a chain of limestone shoals, between Rameshwaram island, off the southern coast of Tamil Nadu India, and Mannar Island, off the northern coast of Sri Lanka. Geological evidence suggests that this bridge is a former land connection between India & Sri Lanka.
The bridge is 48 km long & separates the Gulf of Mannar from the Palk Strait. Some of the regions are dry and the sea in area rarely exceeds 3 ft in depth, thus hindering navigation. It was reportedly passable on foot until the 15th century, when cyclone broke the bridge in 1480.
The bridge was first mentioned in the Ramayana  written by Valmiki (7th century BCE to 3rd century CE),wherein the god Rama had his Vanara  army construct it to reach Lanka and rescue his wife Sita from the Rakshasa king, Ravana.
To rescue Sita, Rama needed to cross to Lanka. Brahma created an army of Vanara  to aid Rama. Led by Nila and under the engineering direction of Nala, the vanara constructed a bridge to Lanka in five days.
Ramasamy's team dates the structure to 3,500 years. In the same study, carbon dating of some ancient beaches between Thiruthuraipoondi and Kodiyakarai shows the Thiruthuraipoondi beach dates back to 6,000 years and Kodiyakarai around 1,100 years ago.
a 2008 court case, a spokesman for the government stated the bridge was destroyed by Shri Rama according to the scriptures. In connection with the canal project, the Madras High Court in its verdict stated that the Rama Sethu is a man-made structure.
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