Mt. Gandhamadana is the tallest peak on

Pamban Island Pamban Island (, ''pāmpaṉ tīvu''), also known as Rameswaram Island, is an island located between peninsular India and Sri Lanka. It forms part of the Rameswaram taluk in the Ramanathapuram district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is ...

near

Rameswaram Rameswaram (; also transliterated as Ramesvaram, Rameshwaram) is a municipality in the Ramanathapuram district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is on Pamban Island separated from mainland India by the Pamban channel and is about from ...

, which lies in the

Palk Strait Palk Strait is a strait between the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and Northern Province of Sri Lanka. It connects the Palk Bay in the Bay of Bengal in the north with the Gulf of Mannar in the Laccadive sea in the south. It stretches for about ...

between mainland India and Sri Lanka. It is believed by many people that

Lord Hanuman Hanuman (; , ), also known as Maruti, Bajrangabali, and Anjaneya, is a deity in Hinduism, revered as a divine ''vanara'', and a devoted companion of the deity Rama. Central to the ''Ramayana'', Hanuman is celebrated for his unwavering devotio ...

resides there.

Location

Gandhamadana is located 3 kilometres from

, almost midway between the western edge of the island and the ghost-town of

Dhanushkodi Dhanushkodi is an abandoned town at the south-eastern tip of Pamban Island of the state of Tamil Nadu in India. It is south-east of Pamban and is about west of Talaimannar in Sri Lanka. The town was destroyed during the 1964 Rameswaram cy ...

at the corner of the eastern promontory.

Legends

Mountain Gandhamadana is believed to be the hillock from whose summit, the Rama devotee Hanuman, commenced his flight to Ravana's Lanka. Kalidasa umarasambhava, VIrefers to Gandhamadana, located in the vicinity of the mythical city of Osadhiprastha in the Himalayas, which is home to Santanaka trees.

Nath Natha, also called Nath (), are a Shaivism, Shaiva sub-tradition within Hinduism in India and Nepal. A medieval movement, it combined ideas from Buddhism, Shaivism, Tantra and Yoga traditions of the Indian subcontinent.

tradition holds that Parashurama, after enacting his vengeance, sought out Dattatreya atop Mount Gandhamadana for spiritual guidance. Their conversations gave rise to

Tripura Rahasya The Tripura Rahasya (Devanagari: त्रिपुरा रहस्य, ), also called the Haritāyana Samhitā, is a medieaval (11th-17th century CE) tantric Shakta Sanskrit text. The title has an ambiguous meaning, translated variously as '' ...

, a treatise on Advaita Vedanta. It was here that the deity instructed the warrior-sage on knowledge of scripture, renunciation of worldly activities, and non-duality, thus freeing Parashurama from the cycle of death and rebirth. Gandhamadan Parvat is also known as Rama's Feet.

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