Images of the Bride built by Lord Ram

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A NASA satellite picture had brought the land strip under focus and

some reports had mentioned that this was only a coral reef dating

back 1.7 million years. Historians also do not to the claim

linking this stretch to Ramayana. Besides NASA pictures, those taken

by Indian Remote Sensing satellites also showed the bridge clearly.

 

Rama's bridge is only 3,500 years old: CRS

 

 

 

Express News Service

 

 

 

 

Madurai, February 2: The Adam's bridge over Palk Strait, said to

be

the remains of a bridge built by Lord Rama, dates back to only 3,500

years and not 1.7 million years as claimed earlier.

 

A team from the Centre for Remote Sensing (CRS) of Bharathidasan

University, Tiruchi, has come up with startling facts about

this ``bridge''. Led by Professor S.M. Ramasamy, the team

is studying

the geological changes that took place along the Tamil Nadu coastline

in the past 40,000 years.

 

 

 

Speaking to The Indian Express, Ramasamy said the CRS findings will

give a clearer picture of the bridge connecting Dhanushkodi in India

to Talaimannar in Sri Lanka.

 

 

Ramasamy says the satellite pictures and carbon dating of some

ancient beaches between Thiruthuraipoondi and Kodiyakarai show the

Thiruthuraipoondi beach dates back to 6,000 years and the Kodiyakarai

beach to 1,100 years. In other words, the sea was near

Thiruthuraipoondi 6,000 years ago and reached Kodiyakarai around

1,100 years ago.

 

Ramasamy explains that the land/beaches were formed between

Ramanathapuram and Pamban because of the long shore drifting currents

which moved in an anti-clockwise direction in the north and clockwise

direction in the south of Rameswaram and Talaimannar about 3,500

years ago.

 

The sand was dumped in a linear pattern along the current shadow zone

between Dhanushkodi and Talaimannar. Later, corals may have

accumulated over these linear sand bodies, Ramasamy adds.

 

But as the carbon dating of the beaches roughly matches the dates of

Ramayana, its link to the epic needs to be explored, he adds.

Declining to comment whether the bridge was indeed built by Rama,

Ramasamy says he would leave that to the experts to answer.

 

 

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