Vānaras
Nala
Vānara builder, son of Viśvakarmā. The setu is still called Nala-setu in the poem.
Yuddha Kāṇḍa sarga 22Vālmīki (primary text)In the text
Nala is a vānara engineer, the son of the divine architect Viśvakarmā, and the one person Samudra says can build across the water. Rāma, stranded at the shore, has to be told this by the ocean itself. Nala directs the army, who bring stones and trees, and the bridge is finished in five days.
Primary text: Śrīmad Vālmīkīya Rāmāyaṇa, Gita Press, Gorakhpur. Later traditions and living-tradition associations are labelled as such. Return to the Rāmāyaṇa World.