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).