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Reading Dan Brown had whetted up my appetite for more of such read. I wondered if any Indian author has tried to decipher codes of ancient Indian literature. I was lucky. A friend handed me ‘Chronicles of Ancient Astronauts’ by an unknown author. With some trepidation I began to read and found it is a bomb. It explodes most of our misconceptions about history. Do extraterrestrials exist and UFOs really visit earth? What came first- man or a woman? Was mankind unfamiliar with science and technology until now? The book is so full of such riddles and plausible answers supported by science that I wonder why the author didn’t name the book ‘The Puranic Code’. Here is the mildest one…,  

There is a general perception and even historians believe that present Sri Lanka is the Lanka mentioned in Ramayana. The author of ‘Chronicles of Ancient Astronauts’ doesn’t think so. He cites old timers who remember that Andaman Islands were originally known as Hanuman Dweep because according to a legend Hanuman rested there while he was on his way to Lanka in search of Sita.

If Sita was held captive just a hop away in what is known as Sri Lanka, what made Hanuman cross 400 miles of Indian Ocean? Historian M.S. Adhikari says because ‘Lanka, the capitol city of Rakshasalaya was in what we now call Malayan Islands.’ To support his conclusion he cites following clues in the article published in ‘The Indian National Herald’ of November 1927.

1. Vayu Purana (48/20/30) and Brahmand Purana mention that Lanka is in Malaya Dweepa.
2. Bhaskaracharya (a renowned ancient scholar) holds that Lanka is in South and is a niransha desh. (Lit: the country without degrees i.e. on 0 degree latitude or equator). Java-Sumatra is on equator while present Sri Lanka is on 8 degrees North Latitude.
3. Ramayana states that ocean of 100 yojan separates Lanka from Bharat. One yojan equals 8 miles. Java-Sumatra is 800 nautical miles in Southeast from India.
4. The natives of Flores Island used to identify themselves as Rakkhah, which is the vulgarized form of the Sanskrit term Rakshas.
5. There is a town named Larantak on the same island. Larantak could be Ramayana’s Narantak the reputed commander of the Lankan army.
6. Sumatra Island has a town named Soni-Lanka or Samlanka situated on the seashore.
7. Near the diamond plant on the same island, is a town by the name Lankata. North of it is the golden mountain which translates as Kanchan Giri mentioned by Ramayana.
8. One of the Malayan Island is called Rupat, which could be the Rupak Dweepa mentioned in Ramayana.
9. Ramayana says that Lanka was made of gold. Even today Sumatra is famous for gold.

Of course to find these names you will need at least two Centuries or much older maps.