Sri
Lanka / History / The Myth
Like
some other ancient cultures Sri Lanka's past is shrouded
in the mists of time. Adam's peak one of the holiest
mountains in the world has a footprint on its top
thought to be of Adam's by Muslims, embedded when
he stepped on to earth banished from heaven (though
the Buddhists believe it to be the footprint of the
Buddha).
According to Sri Lanka's the line of rocks and islets
forming the remains of the land mass connecting Sri
Lanka to India is part of Adam's Bridge, shattered
into fragments by God after expelling Adam from His
kingdom.
With some degree of historical corroboration, is the
earliest mention of the country in the great epic,
the Ramayana, retold over and over again in the entire
Hindu world, when Ravana, the king of Lanka, carried
off Sita, the wife of Rama, and instigated a fantastic
battle leading to the destruction of its capital city.
The epic attributes the laying of Adam's Bridge to
Hanuman, the monkey God and his followers, so that
Rama could skip across to Lanka and rescue Sita.
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