History of Rameswaram
The town has been changed numerous hands; primary among them were Cholas, Jaffna Kingdom, Allaudin Khilji (Malik Kafur), Pandya Dynasty, Vijayanagara Empire, trailed by some different rulers who controlled the town for an extremely brief time before British East India Company legitimately took over it and made it a piece of Madras Presidency. The Rameshwaram Temple which is the fundamental reason the town is known to each other individual after Hinduism, Lord Shiva and Lord Vishnu is said to be worked by Sethupathis of Sethukavalan - overseer of the amazing extension worked by Lord Rama when he crossed the ocean to reach Lanka (presently Sri Lanka) the spot in the control of Demon King Ravana, additionally a Brahman. Rameshwaram is accepted to be the spot from where Lord Rama began his adventure to recover his better half Sita from Ravana and the Lord was helped by 'Vaanar-Sena' armed force of unbelievable monkey-people and served by Hanuman, Lord Ram's fundamental enthusiast. Additionally, numerous later forms of Ramayana affirm of introducing a ShivaLingam by Shri Ram and Devi Sita to love Lord Shiva as a piece of retribution for Brahmahatya - murdering of Brahmana, Ravana who was himself an outstanding staunch devotee of Lord Shiva. The Rameshwaram Temple, worked in twelfth century is accepted to have a similar Shiva Lingam. The extension to Lanka named 'Rama Set u', otherwise called Adam's Bridge is of religious just as biological significance. Somewhere in the range of 30 Km long, it should be tolerable by walking till fifteenth century after which a tempest developed the channel.
Architecture Of Rameshwaram Temple
Rameswaram sanctuary, spread over a zone of 15 sections of land , has grand gopurams, monstrous dividers and a collossal Nandi. Rameswaram likewise has a 4000 feet since quite a while ago pillared passageway with more than 4000 columns, as far as anyone knows the longest on the planet. The cut rock columns are mounted on a raised stage. The exceptional angle about this hall is that the stone isn't indigenous to the island and it was gotten from somewhere else in Tamilnadu over the ocean. The eastern Rajagopuram towers to a stature of 126 feet and it has nine levels. The Western Rajagopuram, however great isn't as tall as the Eastern one. The stuccoed picture of Nandi is around 18 feet tall and 22 feet in length.It is accepted that the old sanctuary was housed in a covered hovel until the twelfth century and that the first since forever brick work structure was worked by Parakrama Bahu of Sri Lanka. The Setupathy leaders of Ramanathapuram finished the remainder of the sanctuary. A portion of the sanctuary vimaanams look like the Vimaanams of the Pallava time frame. A significant part of the increments were done between the twelfth and the sixteenth hundreds of years. The long hall (third prakaram) goes back just to the eighteenth century. The Gandhamadhana Parvatam (slope) gives a decent perspective on the sanctuary. This sanctuary has gotten illustrious support from a few kingdoms, for example, Travancore, Ramanathapuram, Mysore and Pudukkottai.
Best time to visit Rameshwaram
Rameswaram is a town in Tamil Nadu. According to Hindu folklore, Lord Ram and manufactured a town here to get to Lanka. Best time to visit Rameswaram is between the long periods of October and March. Winter is the best time to visit Ramewaram. Rameswaram gets normal precipitation in storms; which additionally makes it a decent time to visit Rameswaram.
How to Reach Rameswaram
By Air: Madurai, at 163 Km good ways from the sacred town, respects the residential explorers where as Chennai the universal ones. From where, contracted taxicabs could take to the sanctuary
By Rail: Mandapam station is only 2 Km away from the sanctuary and brings voyagers from Chennai, Coimbatore, Trichy and Thanjavur.
By Road : Regular Bus administrations make venturing out to the sanctuary town simpler and for some, advantageous. Spots like Nagpur, Hyderabad, Madurai, and so forth are can go about as 'by means of focuses' for those originating from northern piece of India-transports, vehicles or taxicabs.
