Articles on Ravana Lanka Location
Ravanas Lanka located in Central India
By Jogendra Chandra Ghosh · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1929
This short note argues that the legendary Laṅkā of the Rāmāyaṇa should not be identified with Sri Lanka but with a site in central India. The author references medieval commentaries and local traditions that place Laṅkā near the Amarakantaka hills. He cites…
Ravana's Lanka Located in Central India
By M. V. Kibe · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1928
The extracted text discusses the historical and geographical context of Ravana's Lanka as described in Valmiki's *Ramayana*. The epic, written in a language and meter closer to Vedic Sanskrit than classical Sanskrit, is considered one of the earliest accounts…
Ravana's Lanka
By G. Ramadas · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1928
This article investigates the geographic identity of the legendary island fortress ruled by the demon king Rāvaṇa in Vālmīki’s Rāmāyaṇa. The author reviews descriptions of Lanka in the epic: its location is said to be across a vast sea south of the Indian…
Situation of Ravana's Lanka : On the Equator
By V. H. Vader · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1926
The paper presents a fourth theory on the location of Ravana's Lanka, arguing it was situated on the equator as the capital of the large island Raksasa Dvipa in the southern ocean, approximately 700 miles (100 yojanas) from southern India. This challenges the…