sétu mfn. (fr. √ 1. si) binding, who or what binds or fetters, [RV.]
sétu m. a bond, fetter, [ib.]
a ridge of earth, mound, bank, causeway, dike, dam, bridge, any raised piece of ground separating fields (serving as a boundary or as a passage during inundations), [RV.] &c. &c.
setu—pati m. ‘lord of the bridge or causeway’, an hereditary title belonging to the chiefs of Rāmnād as controlling the passage of the channel between Rāmeśvara and Ceylon See col. 2.
setu—bandha m. the forming of a causeway or bridge, a dam or bridge (esp. the ridge of rocks extending from Rāmeśvara on the Southeastern coast of India to Ceylon, and supposed to have been formed by Hanumat as a bridge for the passage of Rāma's army), [MBh.]; [R.] &c.
N. of various works (esp. of the 13th ch. of the Bhaṭṭi-kāvya and of a Prākṛt poem on the history of Rāma, also called rāma-setu, or rāvaṇa-vaha, attributed to Pravarasena and sometimes to Kālidāsa).