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| Agnitheertham |
| 100 metres away from the temple is Agnitheertham, where Rama worshipped Lord Shiva, to absolve himself from the killing Ravana. |
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| Badrakali Amman Temple |
| Badrakali amman temple Badrakali Amman Temple is located in Rameshwaram and is around one kilometer from the Ramanathaswamy temple. The main deity of the temple is Goddess Durga. This temple is on the way to Gandhamadana Parvatam. |
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| Dhanushkodi |
| Named after Rama's bow, Dhanushkodi is at the eastern end of the island at a distance of 8 kms from Rameshwaram. The place used by Hanuman to reach across Srilanka and the boulders around the sea between Srilanka and this place known as Adam's bridge. Dhhanushkodi was completely destroyed by the cyclones of 1964. Kothandaramaswamy temple is the only salvage of the cyclone. Idols of Rama, Sita, Lakshmana, Hanuman and Vibhishana (brother of Ravana), surrendered to Rama, here. |
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| Erwadi |
| Erwadi houses the tomb of Ibrahim Sahid Aulia is an important site for Muslim pilgrims. Erwadi is at a distance of 24 kilometers from Rameshwaram. Especially during the month of December Muslims from across the globe visit Erwadi to participate in the annual festival celebrated as a tribute to the saint. |
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| Gandamadana Parvatham |
| The imprint of Lord Rama's feet placed on a Chakra (wheel) is found in this shrine which is at the highest point on the island at 2 km from Rameswaram. |
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| Hanuman Temple |
| In the region of Rameshwaram, Hanuman temple is a wonderful temple. The temple describes in detail about Hanuman played a very crucial role in the time of Ramayan. The statues are carved out of the wood and they practically move like puppets revealing the incidence of Ramayana. The place where Lord Hanuman delivered the good news of having found Sita to Lord Ram with a Satchi (evidence), namely the 'Chootamani' (jewel) of Sita. It indeed looks wonderful how hanuman flies in the air with his sacred ability to fly and how that actually helped Rama when the places were tough to penetrate through. This sacred shrine lies 3 km from Ramanathaswamy Temple, on the way to Gandhamadana Parvatam. Madurai Airport and Rameswaram Railway Station are the nearest major access points. |
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| Sethu Karai |
| Sethu Karai is a place 22 km where God Ram built a Floating Stone Bridge "Ramasethu" till Rameshwaram that further continued from Dhanushkodi in Rameshwaram till Talaimannar in Sri Lanka as mentioned in the great Hindu epic Ramayana. A bridge, built by Rama's army of monkeys across the sea, under the leadership of Hanuman(Monkey-God) and the engineering supervision of Nala, the engineer, was also a monkey, son of 'Visvakarma', the engineer of Gods in the heaven. The name of "Rama" written on the stones with which the bridge was built, made them float in the water of the sea according to great epic Ramayana. In Devipatnam, or Navapashanam, also by the sea, there are nine stones visible at low tide. It is believed that they were set up by Sri Rama to represent the nine planets, the Navagrahas. |
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| Stone from the bridge is kept for exhibition in the temple of Hanuman, Kasapuram (previously Nettekallu). |
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| The temple is about 5km. away from Guntakal railway junction, Anantpur District, Andhrapradesh, INDIA. |
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| Uthirakosamangai |
| Shiva temple of Uttarakosamangai stands the renowed at a distance of 16-km southwest of Ramanathapuram. In Uttarakosamangai the deity are Lord is Mangaleshvara and the Goddess Mangalesvari. The temple has inspired many Tamil works of devotion. |
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