The Rāmāyaṇa
รามเกียรติ์คือเรื่องจริง: หลักฐานคือสะพานพระรามที่หนุมานสร้าง?
Summary
In the epic, the bridge is built by Rāma and the vānara army under Sugrīva and Hanumān, to cross and recover Sītā from Laṅkā.
What separates this from other legends is that a real chain of shoals and sandbanks lies between India and Sri Lanka.
The talk sets the scientific side alongside it: what geology says about that formation.
Key points
There is a physical object to argue about
Unlike legends with no referent, this one has a formation visible from orbit.
Geology has its own account
Natural formation explains the chain, and that explanation has to be defeated first.
Dating is what decides it
If the formation’s age does not match the period in the story, the proposal falls on its own.
A historical core is not a true story
An epic can rest on real events while the detail was filled in later.