Rama’s army builds a sea bridge to Lanka

Rama’s army builds a sea bridge to Lanka is presented as the passage that carried Ráma across the sea to Lanká. The text emphasizes the crossing and the bridge’s enduring fame, while leaving the construction itself undescribed.

The Crossing to Lanká

In an address to his spouse, Ráma recalls that he met and slew his deadly foe, then built a bridge across the deep and crossed to Lanká’s shore. The bridge is thus bound to a completed sea crossing and to the victory Ráma recounts; the passage offers no account of the work’s stages or the people who carried it out.

Ráma’s Account of the Deed

Ráma’s recollection makes the bridge part of a sequence of exertion and achievement. He says that sleep had not yet returned to him, and places the building and crossing immediately after his encounter with his foe. The account gives the feat a personal voice without supplying practical details about its design or construction.

A Bridge Remembered

Elsewhere, the bridge is described as stretching from shore to shore and as wondrous, with fame that will endure. This emphasis shifts attention from the mechanics of building to the scale and lasting renown of the crossing. The surviving account therefore preserves the bridge chiefly as a celebrated link between shores and as the means of Ráma’s passage to Lanká.