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Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: An Epic of Ancient India

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Rama's Bridge / Adam's Bridge

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Robert P. Goldman's Princeton scholarly translation project for the Sanskrit epic tradition; establishes textual and literary context for the crossing narrative, not archaeological verification of the shoals as a built structure.

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The Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa textual tradition includes Rama's crossing to Lanka, and later regional reception gives that narrative continuing religious and cultural significance.

The strongest support is for the existence of the feature and its long cultural importance. The shoal chain is real. The Ramayana bridge story is real as a religious and literary tradition. The Rameswaram region has major sacred significance. The strongest scientific support favors natural coastal formation, with ongoing technical debate about sediment history and sea-level evolution.
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The listed marine, remote-sensing, and textual sources do not establish that the entire shoal chain is an engineered ancient bridge built as narrated in the Ramayana.

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