Is Ceylon the Lanka mentioned in Ramayana?

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> > > Just a thought: since the action narrated in the Ramayana took

> > > place about one and half million years ago isn't it quite possible

> > > that the positions of the land masses could have changed

> > > considerably during that period? Why would we expect to find

> > > everything exactly as it was then especially when we read that King

> > > Mucucunda fell asleep in one yuga and on his awakening in another

> > > was surprised to see that everything had gotten much smaller?

> > > Wouldn't distances also get smaller?

> >

> > According to Laghu-bhagavatamrta Rama-lila manifests in 24th

> > catur-yuga while Krsna/Caitanya-lila in 28th. Then the time difference

> > would be around 19 M years.

> >

> > LBh 1.3.78 "Splendid as a new blade of durva grass, and accompanied by

> > Sumitra's two sons and by Bharata, He appeared in the Treta-yuga of

> > the 24th catur-yuga as the son of Kausalya and Dasaratha."

> >

> > CC 1.3.10 "At the end of the Dvapara-yuga of the twenty-eighth

> > divya-yuga, Lord Krsna appears on earth with the full paraphernalia of

> > His eternal Vraja-dhma."

>

> This is very interesting information. I haven't seen this before. I

> have been basing my understanding on the SB which only speaks of Lord Rama

> appearing in Treta Yuga but doesn't say which divya-yuga cycle it is. So I

> have always assumed, and I think many devotees have, it was the Treta-yuga

> just prior to this Kali-yuga.

 

I thought the same, that Lord Rama appeared near the end of the last Treta

yuga (which ended 869,000 years ago). Since He ruled for 36,000 years it was

obviously not the very end of the yuga so minimum of 900,000 years ago.

 

 

>

> However, there is no indication that is the case with Lord Rama.

> Although there is a statement by Srila Prabhupada that all the

> lila-avataras, of which Lord Rama is one, appear in each kalpa or day of

> Brahma he doesn't say They only appear once. Is it possible Lord Rama may

> have appeared in each divya yuga? Does anyone have any reference for the

> frequency of His appearances?

 

Lord Varaha has at least two different appearances as Rakta (red) Varaha and

Sveta (white) Varaha and sometimes the pastimes of one are confused with the

other.

 

 

> kalpa-bhedenaiva sambhavyam. In other words, these opinions are not

> contradictory. In some millenniums Lord Ramacandra and His brothers appear

> as incarnations of Vasudeva, Sankarsana, Pradyumna and Aniruddha, and in

> other millenniums They appear as incarnations of Narayana, Sesa, Cakra and

> Sankha. The residence of Lord Ramacandra on this planet is Ayodhya.

> Ayodhya City is still existing in the district of Faizabad, which is

> situated on the northern side of Uttar Pradesh."

>

> The point here is that sometimes descriptions vary due to a mixing

> of different appearances.

 

Exactly correct.

 

 

>

> Apart from this, Prabhupada's chapter summary statements from the SB

> 9th canto 12th chapter seem to indicate (granted not directly) that the

> Lord Ramacandra mentioned therein appeared in the last treta-yuga, just

> prior to this kali-yuga because His descendant Maru will revive the

> dynasty of the Sun God "at the end of this age of Kali":

>

>

> 12. The Dynasty of Kusa, the Son of Lord Ramacandra

> SB 9.12 Summary

> This chapter describes the dynasty of Kusa, the son of Lord Ramacandra.

> The members of this dynasty are descendants of Sasada, the son of Maharaja

> Iksvaku.

> Following in the genealogical table of Lord Ramacandra's dynasty, Kusa,

> the Lord's son, was followed consecutively by Atithi, Nisadha, Nabha,

> Pundarika, Ksemadhanva, Devanika, Aniha, Pariyatra, Balasthala,

> Vajranabha, Sagana and Vidhrti. These personalities ruled the world. From

> Vidhrti came Hiranyanabha, who later became the disciple of Jaimini and

> propounded the system of mystic yoga in which Yajnavalkya was initiated.

> Following in this dynasty were Puspa, Dhruvasandhi, Sudarsana, Agnivarna,

> Sighra and Maru. Maru attained full perfection in the practice of yoga,

> and he still lives in the village of Kalapa. At the end of this age of

> Kali, he will revive the dynasty of the sun-god.

>

> Sukadeva Goswami mentions a few more kings who had already passed away (8)

> and then he gives a list of kings yet to come. Although the list is quite

> long, 30 names, it ends with Sumitra who comes in this age of Kali and

> then the dynasty is extinguished.

>

> So if Sukadeva himself appears at the start of Kali-yuga and he

> predicts 30 more kings it seems reasonable to suppose that the complete

> list of kings he gives for the line coming from Lord Rama does not extend

> over 4 divya-yugas but only from Treta-yuga to Kali-yuga within the same

> divya-yuga. Otherwise, why wouldn't the dynasty end on the first

> Kali-yuga, 4 divya-yugas ago. Why does he say it ends in "this" Kali-yuga?

 

That makes sense. It seems that there were many different appearances of

Lord Rama.