Bridge Means BridGroom
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Sudekshana
According to Legend, when the monkeys were doing there job, Lakshmana who came there asked Rama why only the two monkeys Nalan and Neelan were entrusted to throw the stones and not the others. Rama told Lakshmana to hear the story behind this from Hanuman. So Lakshmana goes to Hanuman who reveals the says that whatever is thrown into the water by these two monkeys will float. Surprised, Lakshmana asks how these two got such a boon and from whom. Hanuman says it was not a boon but a curse and retells the following story.
Once there was a hermit by name Sudekshana. He regularly did puja using ‘Salagramam’ (shiny pebbles from the river bed, which is used to pray to Shiva) and he kept them in a box. One day after a bath in the river, he came looking for these but the box was empty. He searched everywhere but could not find them. Meanwhile, he looked inside his water pot and found that it was empty, so he went to fetch water. There lying in a small puddle of water were the stones. He thanked the almighty for showing him the stones and resumed his ritual.
After a few days when he was getting ready for his morning rituals, he heard a noise of pots and pans rolling inside his house. He rushed inside to find Nalan and Neelan playing with his stones and the box lying open in front of them. As soon as they saw him they ran out with the stones and threw them in the water. The hermit searched for the stones in the water and got them out.
The monkeys continued this way and the hermit thought that he should do something about it. But he couldn’t punish these monkeys who didn’t know what they were doing. So when the next time they were running with the stones, he called out a curse to them saying “Whatever you throw into the water will not drown but float.”
Nalan and Neelan were the ones who were cursed by Sudekshana, so we are taking there help, concluded Hanuman. So according to the advice of Hanuman the rest of the monkeys brought rocks to the two monkeys waiting at the waterfront. Nalan and Neelan then threw the stones into the water by which the bridge was built.
Neeleshwarar
The name of this Lingam is Neeleshwarar Lingam near the Shiva shrines worshipped by Nalan, Neelan and Kavan in the third praharam.
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Abduction
Ravana's abduction of Kausalya, Rama's mother
Ravana once approached Brahma, inquiring him as to how his own death would come about. Brahma responded that the son of Kausalya and Dasharatha would be the cause of his death. Enraged, Ravana abducted Kausalya immediately prior to her wedding, and placed her in a box on a deserted island in the middle of the ocean.
The sage Narada described her whereabouts to Dasharatha, who then brought his army to the shore to rescue her. The army began to cross the ocean in boats, approaching the island of Kausalya's captivity. Hearing of Dasharatha's rescue attempt, Ravana sent his "rakshasa" (demon) army. In the ensuing battle, Dasharatha's army was annihilated, but Dasharatha escaped on a wooden plank, floating on the ocean for many days.
Eventually, he landed on the island of Kausalya's captivity and chanced upon the box in which she was enclosed. Narada and other sages quickly arrived and performed a wedding ceremony, after which Dasharatha and Kausalya were enclosed in the box.
Unaware of these events, Ravana went to Brahma and told him that his prediction had been rendered false, as he had killed Dasharatha and was holding Kausalya captive in the box. Knowing that his words must always be true, Brahma had the box brought to his and Ravana's presence and opened. Seeing Dasharatha and Kausalya in the box, Ravana was humiliated and planned to kill them both, but his wife Mandodari persuaded him otherwise. Eventually, Dasharatha and Kausalya went to Ayodhya, where they lived happily. Eventually she gave birth to Rama, and his three brothers.
Ravana’s Abduction of sita
When Hanuman first arrived in Lanka, he searched everywhere for Sita. At one point, he mistook the sleeping Mandodari for Sita. Realizing his mistake, he wondered why she looked like Sita., who was listening to the story from Shiva, asked why there was a similarity in their appearance. Shiva responded that Ravana's mother Kaikasi had once sent Ravana to Shiva to obtain a beautiful Shivalinga for her. Ravana had pleased Shiva and given him two boons, one of which he used to obtain the Atmalinga. With the other, he asked for Parvati as his wife. Shiva gave both to Ravana but told him that if he dropped the Atmalinga, it would remain installed where it fell and would move no further. And so Ravana departed with Parvati and the linga.
Parvati called vishnu for help, and he appeared to Ravana disguised as a Brahmana. The Brahmana told Ravana that he had been misled and that the Parvati, she gave him was really a fake version. The real Parvati, he said, was in the netherworlds hiding from him. Ravana then entrusted the linga to the Brahmana, and set off in search of the ‘real’ Parvati. After Ravana had left, the Brahmana (Vishnu) consecrated the linga and departed. According to the Ananda Ramayana, this is the origin of the linga at Gokarna.
Ravana eventually returned to Gokarna to perform the intense tapas, which later earned him the boons from Brahma that made him invincible to everyone but humans. Thus Vishnu was later able to incarnate as Rama in order to defeat Ravana. But that story doesn't mention in Valmiki Ramayan or other Ramayana except for Ananda Ramayan and many scholars rejected that story.
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Gandhamadana
The Gandamadana Parvatam is situated at a distance of 3 kilometers to the north of the temple of Rameshwaram. The Gandamadana Parvatam is a hill and is the highest spot in the island of Rameshwaram. On the Gandamadana Parvatam, there is a two-storeyed Mandapam. In this Mandapam, Lord Rama’s feet or Padam is found as an impression on a chakra. Every year thousands of pilgrims gather in the island of Rameshwaram to worship the Gandamadana Parvatam.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Gandhamadana
Rama Teertham(Gandamadana):-
Rama Teertham is constructed on the Gandamadhana Parvata hence forth it is also called Gandamadana. It is constructed on the island and is considered to be the most sacred pilgim place in southern India. In this temple there is a charka on which the imprints of Lord Rama have been encarved. It is little away from Dhanushkodi, which is a place where Rama met Vibhishana and that place too has its own historical importance.
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