Adams Bridge - Ramayana

NASA Images Discover Ancient Bridge between India and Sri Lanka Space images taken by NASA reveal a mysterious ancient bridge in the Palk Strait between India and Sri Lanka. The recently discovered bridge currently named as Adam's Bridge is made of chain of shoals, c.18 mi (30 km) long. The bridge's unique curvature and composition by age reveals that it is man made. The legends as well as Archeological studies reveal that the first signs of human inhabitants in Sri Lanka date back to the a primitive age, about 1,750,000 years ago and the bridge4s age is also almost equivalent. This information is a crucial aspect for an insight into the mysterious legend called Ramayana, which was supposed to have taken place in treta yuga (more than 1,700,000 years ago). In this epic, there is a mentioning about a bridge, which was built between Rameshwaram (India) and Srilankan coast under the supervision of a dynamic and invincible figure called Rama who is supposed to be the incarnation of the supreme. This information may not be of much importance to the archeologists who are interested in exploring the origins of man, but it is sure to open the spiritual gates of the people of the world to have come to know an ancient history linked to the Indian mythology.

Humans didn't exist 1.75 million years ago, just early homonids, such as Homo Habilis (first on the left)............. Looks like a perfectly natural formation to me.

1 HOMO HABILIS ~ NICKNAME: Handyman LIVED: 2.4 to 1.6 million years ago HABITAT: Tropical Africa DIET: Omnivorous � nuts, seeds, tubers, fruits, some meat
2 HOMO SAPIEN ~ NICKNAME: Human LIVED: 200,000 years ago to present HABITAT: All DIET: Omnivorous - meat, vegetables, tubers, nuts, pizza, sushi
3 HOMO FLORESIENSIS ~ NICKNAME: Hobbit LIVED: 95,000 to 13,000 years ago HABITAT: Flores, Indonesia (tropical) DIET: Omnivorous - meat included pygmy stegodon, giant rat
4 HOMO ERECTUS ~ NICKNAME: Erectus LIVED: 1.8 million years to 100,000 years ago HABITAT: Tropical to temperate - Africa, Asia, Europe DIET: Omnivorous - meat, tubers, fruits, nuts
5 PARANTHROPUS BOISEI ~ NICKNAME: Nutcracker man LIVED: 2.3 to 1.4 million years ago HABITAT: Tropical Africa DIET: Omnivorous - nuts, seeds, leaves, tubers, fruits, maybe some meat
6 HOMO HEIDELBERGENSIS ~ NICKNAME: Goliath LIVED: 700,000 to 300,000 years ago HABITAT: Temperate and tropical, Africa and Europe DIET: Omnivorous - meat, vegetables, tubers, nuts
7 HOMO NEANDERTHALENSIS ~ NICKNAME: Neanderthal LIVED: 250,000 to 30,000 years ago HABITAT: Europe and Western Asia DIET: Relied heavily on meat, such as bison, deer and musk ox

http://www.theage.com.au/news/Science/Skeletons-in-the-cupbo ard/2005/03/18/1111086008084.html

Originally posted by Paul Humans didn't exist 1.75 million years ago, just early homonids, such as Homo Habilis (first on the left)............. Looks like a perfectly natural formation to me.

By theory no evidence of human existence has been found to exist during this time, but more importantly your evolution chart is missing Homo Ergaster, a species that closely resembles the characteristics of the god Hanuman of the Ramayana.  It is possible that the bridge was built by this species.

Originally posted by Omar al Hashim No thats stupid. Why wouldn't you use a chain of boats? A floating causeway. Dragging all that dirt/stones down is a waste of effort even if you did want to build a bridge to Sri Lanka.

According to the Ramayana, the protagonist (Ramchandra) was living in exile at the time without any shelter or money to buy an army, boats etc.  It is said that he was helped by the sages, friends and animals of the area with the basic equipment that they had.

Originally posted by Rajput Originally posted by Paul Humans didn't exist 1.75 million years ago, just early homonids, such as Homo Habilis (first on the left)............. Looks like a perfectly natural formation to me. By theory no evidence of human existence has been found to exist during this time, but more importantly your evolution chart is missing Homo Ergaster, a species that closely resembles the characteristics of the god Hanuman of the Ramayana.  It is possible that the bridge was built by this species.

Homo Ergaster only lived in Africa, it was a sub species of Homo Erectus but with smaller cranial capacity, not much better than a gorilla's maximum.

Homo Ergaster - 850cc max

Gorilla - 752cc max

Human - 1700cc max

 

 

Edited by Paul

Their stone tools do show forsight, ability to plan in advance, learn and remember techniques, experiment with new techniques.

http://www.fsnielsen.com/tln/timeline0006_tx.htm

 

Originally posted by Omar al Hashim If you don't need money to drag dirt down to build a land bridge, you don't need money to ties logs together and use them as a floating bridge. It'd be alot easier to build a pontoon bridge, I don't see why he would fill in the sea.

However you do need to cut trees for those logs and Hinduism has a strong sense of a animistic belief structure rooted in the faith.  Matter of fact all religions having originated in India involve animism in one way or another.

           This explanation of Ramas Bridge is not built after the NASA relayed the pictures of its existence.
           even from 2000BC Indians have not seen the bridge, but through folklore the history of the building of such a bridge is stored in the concious of the Indians and Ramayana records this construction of the bridge...
        So as u beleive, we havent invented this legend, the proof of Ramas bridge only prooves what our epics say...
    The westerners brandished our history as myths but we Indians always regarded them as our past. Now Wonder what by strange coincidence of divine bliss our myths our coming true...and many more will come true becoz they are not at all myths, they are facts.
   One more thing from the epics of India the ancients were huge they were gaints we know that not from archeological finds but by our past recorded history that our ancestors were gaints now archeology only confirms it....
   And their were vivid mention of these gaints in our epics the constituents of our history for example the wife of Balaram was a gaint, Rama was even said to be of great height ....
   I havent read the Ramayana but rajput what is the description of RAMA's physic, ..As Balaramas wife is greatly taller Rama would also have been much taller than modern humans anywehre between 12 to 15 ft...

I know alot of indians are very tall, but it is hard to believe a human being can be 12 to 15 feet tall.  Varma can you please post a link to the archeological evidence of Indians being so tall.

Originally posted by Omar al Hashim No thats stupid. Why wouldn't you use a chain of boats? A floating causeway. Dragging all that dirt/stones down is a waste of effort even if you did want to build a bridge to Sri Lanka.

Ram was living in exile, They had left his kingdom with only no resources but just a couple of ascetic cloths (not royal cloths) & their weapons.

His helpers were tribes of primitive ape like humans, who obviously did not have the level of development to build a bridge any other way. Dragging stones was the easiest way out for primitive ape people.

Ram was himself not an engineer, to know how to build a bridge. This technique of placing stones was revealed mythically be the sea god.

Homo Ergastus's remains have been found only in Africa, that does not mean he could not have lived anywhere else. The limitation here is our knowledge.


Till recently there were some very primitive tribes living in the area which was the kingdom of these Ape people. , They were very primitive people, did not mingle with the outer world, lived in deep jungles, had no development, no script. no knowledge (they were hunter gatherers), but they called themselves the monkey tribe & their primitive paintings & flags depicted their god Hanuman as a monkey. They did not kill Monkeys & worshipped them as Gods. The tribe became extinct later due to inter mixing & disease


Thousands of years of cherished mythology, explicit details, astonnishingly detailed calculations & the only survivng  fully developed culture in the world cannot be totally false.

You can build a place without maths.

Filling up a sea bed is unnecessarly difficult, scientifically you would use boats.

*Actually this is an incorrect use of the word scientifically, science has nothing to do with it. Practicality does.


Edited by Omar al Hashim - 06-Dec-2006 at 15:10