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Like some other ancient cultures Sri Lanka's past is shrouded in the mists of time. Adam's peak one of the holiest mountains in the world has a footprint on its top thought to be of Adam's by Muslims, embedded when he stepped on to earth banished from heaven (though the Buddhists believe it to be the footprint of the Buddha). According to Sri Lanka's the line of rocks and islets forming the remains of the land mass connecting Sri Lanka to India is part of Adam's Bridge, shattered into fragments by God after expelling Adam from His kingdom. With some degree of historical corroboration, is the earliest mention of the country in the great epic, the Ramayana, retold over and over again in the entire Hindu world, when Ravana, the king of Lanka, carried off Sita, the wife of Rama, and instigated a fantastic battle leading to the destruction of its capital city. The epic attributes the laying of Adam's Bridge to Hanuman, the monkey God and his followers, so that Rama could skip across to Lanka and rescue Sita.