Some early Islamic sources refer to a mountain in Sri Lanka as Adam's Peak (where the biblical Adam supposedly fell to earth). 850), in which he refers to it as Set Bandhai or Bridge of the Sea. The western world first encountered it in Ibn Khordadbeh's Book of Roads and Kingdoms ( c. Sankalia locate the Lanka of the epic somewhere in the eastern part of present day Madhya Pradesh. Scholars differ on the possible geography of the Ramayana but several suggestions since the work of H.D. These are based on geographical, botanical, and folkloristic evidences as no archaeological evidence has been found. Analysis of several of the older Ramayana versions by scholars for evidence of historicity have led to the identification of Lankapura no further south than the Godavari River. The location of the Lanka of the Ramayana has been widely interpreted as being present-day Sri Lanka making this stretch of land Nala's or Rama's bridge. The ancient Indian Sanskrit epic Ramayana (7th century BCE to 3rd century CE) written by Valmiki mentions a bridge constructed by god Rama through his Vanara (ape-men) army to reach Lanka and rescue his wife Sita from the Rakshasa king, Ravana.
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