Vedic Katha
On the southern shore, Rama receives Vibhishana and prays to the Ocean for three days.
With the news that Sita was alive in Lanka, Rama marched south with Sugriva's vast army of vanaras and bears. They reached the shore of the southern ocean, and there the great sea lay between them and Lanka.
While they camped on the shore, Vibhishana, brother of Ravana, flew across from Lanka with four companions and asked for refuge.
On Vibhishana's advice Rama lay on a bed of kusha grass on the shore for three days and nights, praying to Samudra, the lord of the ocean, to let them pass. The ocean did not answer.
Nala and his companion Nila directed the work. The vanaras tore up trees and rocks from the hills, carried boulders the size of mountains, and threw them into the sea, where Nala set them in place.
Later tradition added many loved details. In one, the stones floated because the name "Rama" was written on each one.
The bridge is called Rama Setu or Nala Setu. A chain of limestone shoals between Pamban Island near Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu and Mannar Island in Sri Lanka, known in English as Adam's Bridge, is traditionally…
The bridge is a story about many hands. Rama's divine power does not build it; the patient labour of countless vanaras, guided by a skilled architect, does.
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