Lord Rama's bridge from NASA pictures

Originally posted by Nygdan

Originally posted by aryaputhra
The recently discovered bridge currently named as Adam's Bridge is made of chain of shoals, c.18 mi (30 km) long.

The bridge's unique curvature and composition by age reveals that it is man made.

What about the curvature suggests its man made? If anything it looks extremely natural. If its made up of shoals, then how does its composition help?

The legends as well as Archeological studies reveal that the first signs of human inhabitants in Sri Lanka date back to the a primitive age, about 1,750,000 years ago and the bridge�s age is also almost equivalent.

homo sapiens doesn't come into existence until 500,000 years ago. What archeological studies are you refering to?

Ramayana, which was supposed to have taken place in the age of treta yuga (0.869 to 2.165 million years back).

That would put it in the range of Australpithecus for the later limit and still out of the range of Homo sapiens. Are you contending that Rama was an apeman? Neanderthal or c.f. Homo erectus?

The bridge was built by Lord Ram with the help of his army of monkeys to cross over to Lanka to rescue his wife Sita, who was captured by the demon king of Lanka, Ravana.

.... do monkeys build with shoals or did do wife snatching demons turn bridges into mud?

[edit on 8-10-2004 by Nygdan]

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Originally posted by jp1111
carbon dating of such beaches

What did they anaylze to carbon date the beach?

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>>>>>>>>What experts say
S Badrinarayanan, former director of Geological Survey of India and a member of the National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) says the Adam’s Bridge was not a natural formation.

“Coral reefs are formed only on hard surfaces. But during the study we found that the formation at Adam's Bridge is nothing but boulders of coral reefs. When we drilled for investigation, we found that there was loose sand two to three metres below the reefs. Hard rocks were found several metres below the sand.

Such a natural formation is impossible. Unless somebody has transported them and dumped them there, those reefs could not have come there. Some boulders were so light that they could float on water. Apparently, whoever has done it, has identified light (but strong) boulders to make it easy for transportation. Since they are strong, they can withstand a lot of weight. It should be preserved as a national monument,” he opined.

He also cautioned that once the channel connected the turbulent Bay of Bengal and the calm Gulf of Mannar, it could spell doom for the southern Tamil Nadu coastline. During the tsunamis, it was Adam’s Bridge and Sri Lanka that saved the southern coastline when Nagapattinam and other northern shores were ravaged.

“Such comforts would not be there in future if this man-made barrier is cut open,” he added.

some hi-res images of bridge/no bridge

Originally posted by thiru72
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>>>>>>>>What experts say
S Badrinarayanan, former director of Geological Survey of India and a member of the National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) says the Adam’s Bridge was not a natural formation.

Actually, the article you linked quotes a lot of experts that say it IS natural.

It's an interesting feature, though.

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Pretty much everything in the original post of this thread is wrong.

Homo sapiens hadn't left Africa as recently as 200 millennia ago. They may very well have not existed 1.75 million years ago. They certainly didn't exist in India at that time.

The only people who believe this formation is man-made are revisionist Hindutva wackjobs like the RSS.

What kind of idiot believes in a bridge built by monkeys under the supervision of a god? You people might be good at math, but you suck at common sense.

Next you're going to tell me that Navajo swastikas are a result of Indians reaching North America in 10,000 BC. Yes, that's another one the RSS is telling people.

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Bhatnagar goes on to explain: “This information is significant, since these configurations do not repeat for lakhs of years and cannot be manipulated or imagined so accurately, without the help of sophisticated software. The inference that one can draw is that someone was present there to witness the actual happening of these configurations, which got recorded in the story of Rama."

Bhatnagar provides the following quote from the Ramayana: “Rama was born on the Navami tithi of Shukla Paksha of Chaitra masa (9th day of the increasing phase of the moon in the lunar month of Chaitra). At that time, the nakshatra was Punarvasu, and Sun, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter and Venus were in Aries, Capricorn, Libra, Cancer and Pisces respectively. Lagna was Cancer and Jupiter & Moon were shining together. — Ramayana 1.18.8,9

The conditions can be summarized as follows, according to Bhatnagar:
1. Sun in Aries
2. Saturn in Libra
3. Jupiter in Cancer
4. Venus in Pisces
5. Mars in Capricorn
6. Lunar month of Chaitra
7. 9th day after New Moon (Navami Tithi, Shukla Paksh)
8. Moon near Punarvasu Nakshatra (Pollux star in Gemini constellation)
9. Cancer as Lagna (Cancer constellation rising in the east)
10. Jupiter above the horizon

According to the Planetarium software, it provides the following date: Sri Rama Navami - 10th January 5114 BCE - Birth Day of Rama, Observation at 12.30 p.m.
Bhatnagar continues: “By using a powerful planetarium software, I found that the planetary positions mentioned in Ramayana for the date of birth of Lord Ram had occurred in the sky at around 12.30 p.m. of 10th January 5114 BC. It was the ninth day of the Shukla Paksh of Chaitra month too. Moving forward, after 25 years of the birth of Lord Ram, the position of planets in the sky tallies with their description in Ramayana. Again, on the amavasya (new moon) of the 10th month of the 13th year of exile the solar eclipse had indeed occurred and the particular arrangement of planets in the sky was visible. ( Date comes to 7th October, 5077 BC). Even the occurrence of subsequent two eclipses also tally with the respective description in Valmiki Ramayana. (Date of Hanuman’s meeting Sita at Lanka was 12th September, 5076 BC). In this manner the entire sequence of the planetary positions gets verified and all the dates can be precisely determined.”

Nonetheless, some people feel that the appearance of Lord Rama took place many thousands or even millions of years earlier, in the Treta-yuga. For example, in the Vayu Purana (70.47-48) [published by Motilal Banarsidass] there is a description of the length of Ravana’s life, and that when Ravana’s merit of penance began to decline, he met Lord Rama, the son of Dasarath, in a battle wherein he and his followers were killed in the 24th Tretayuga. The Roman transliteration of the verse is:

tretayuge chaturvinshe ravanastapasah kshayat
ramam dasharathim prapya saganah kshayamiyavan

There are 1000 Treta-yugas in one day of Brahma, and it is calculated that we are presently in the 27th cycle of the four yugas (divya-yugas) of Vaivasvata Manu, who is the seventh Manu in the series of Manu rulers. Each Manu is considered to live for 71 such divya-yuga cycles. So, without getting too complicated about things, from the 24th Treta-yuga to the present age of Kali-yuga, there is obviously a difference of millions of years. Of course, few people may believe this unless they are already familiar with the vast lengths of time that the Vedic literature deals with.

Nonetheless, maybe there is a reason why we should accept that Lord Rama appeared millions of years ago. In the Valmiki Ramayana, Sundara-Kanda (or Book 5), Chapter 4, verse 27, [Gita Press, Gorakhpur, India] it explains that when Hanuman first approached Ravana’s palace, he saw the doorways surrounded by horses and chariots, palanquins and aerial cars, beautiful horses and elephants, nay, with four-tusked elephants decked with jewels resembling masses of white clouds.

Furthermore, in the Valmiki Ramayana, Sundara-Kanda (or Book 5), Chapter 27, verses12, an ogress named Trijata has a dream of Lord Rama, which she describes to the other demoniac ogresses upon awakening. In that dream she sees Rama, scion of Raghu, united again with Sita. Sri Rama was mounted on a huge elephant, closely resembling a hill, with four tusks.

The question is how could there be a mention of the elephants with four tusks unless Valmiki was familiar with such creatures? A quick search on the Encarta Encyclopedia will let us know that these four-tusked elephants were known as Mastodontoidea, which are said to have evolved around 38 million years ago and became extinct about 15 million years ago when the shaggy and two tusked Mastodons came into being. Now there’s something to think about, eh?

Yeah, Ra Mayan (Ramayan) I doubt that's coincidence.

Army of monkeys isn't far fetched since people think we are monkeys.

But people just laugh, whatever.

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He has 10 heads

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This is so awesome! If it's that old and man made it would be really fun to
See archeological finds in and around bridge and also on Adam's peak and near the footprint. Of any of you don't know there's a legend that says Adam went to repent by standing on one foot for 30 years when exiled from the Garden of Eden and to get to the mountain which people call Adam's Peak he built a bridge by hand to get there and from standing for such a long time he left an imprint in the rock on the top of the mountain.

Sacred Footprint images

Official page for Sri Pada or Adam's Peak