Everything in or near to Rameshwaram is connected tradionally with the incidents of 'Ramayana'
. The Kashi pilgrimage is not considered complete not only after the worship in Sri Ramanatha Temple after the bath in Dhanushkodi, a tip of island where the Bay of Bengal called the Mahodadhi in ancient times and it joins the Indian Ocean or Ratnakaram and its old name is 'Dhanushkodi' in Tamil which means 'end of the row'.