setu
सेतु setuA 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).
Where this term appears
- What is the Ramayana? Scriptures
The Ramayana is a Sanskrit epic that follows Prince Rama through exile, the abduction of his wife Sita by the demon-king Ravana, and the war fought to recover her.…
- The Twelve Jyotirlingas Temples
…s famous two lingas, belongs mainly to the Ramayana tradition and the Setu-mahatmya of the Skanda Purana .
- Who is Rama? Deities
Rama is the seventh avatar of Vishnu and the prince of Ayodhya, revered as the *maryada purushottama*, the ideal man who upholds dharma whatever it costs him. His…
- Is Ram Setu man-made? What the geology actually says Journal
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…