रामसेतु

Sanskrit

Etymology

From राम (rāma) + सेतु (setu)

Noun

रामसेतु • (rāmasetu) m

‘रामs's bridge’, the ridge of coral rocks by which Rāma crossed to Ceylon (now called Adam's bridge, cf. रामेश्वर below) Cat.
N. of a poem (= सेतु-बन्ध)

References

Monier Williams (1899), “रामसेतु”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, OCLC 458052227, page 0877.

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