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सेतु setu

A bridge or causeway; in the Ramayana, the stone-and-timber bridge built by Nala for Rama's army to cross to Lanka (Rama Setu, Adam's Bridge).

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    Untangling it is a small masterclass in how a question gets muddled, because the popular framing, "is Ram Setu man-made or natural?", is actually three different questions jammed into one.

  • The book of the city Treatise

    …iterature of the pilgrimage rites themselves, above all the Tristhali Setu , the "bridge to the three sacred places", composed in the sixteenth century by the great Banaras scholar Narayana Bhatta, a learned di…

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