Adam's Peak

English

Etymology

After a Sri Lankan Muslim legend that the seeming indentation on the mountain is a footprint left by Adam, who were forced to stand on one leg for a thousand years as penance after being expelled from Eden; a modification of the older Buddhist tradition that it is a footprint of the Buddha. In the less common Syriac Christian version of the legend it is said to made by the apostle Thomas instead.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -iːk

Proper noun

Adam's Peak

  1. Sri Pada.

Further reading

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