History
of Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka is one of those places where history seems to fade into the mist of legend. Is not Adam’s Peak said to be the very place where Adam set foot on earth, having been sent
out of heaven? Isn’t that
his footprint squarely
on top of the mountain
to prove it? Or is it the
Buddha’s footprint
on Sri Pada? And isn’t Adam’s Bridge (the chain of islands linking
Sri Lanka to India)
the very series of stepping stones Rama, aided by his faithful ally, the monkey god Hanuman, stepped across in his mission
to rescue Sita from the
clutches of the Rawana,
King of Lanka, in the
epic Ramayana?

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