It behove you to behold this descending place as of the high souled Ocean, known Setubandha,* worshipped of the three worlds, highly sacred and destroying even the worst sin. There, Vibhīsaņa, the king of Rākşasas first came to me. *This is still to be seen in the shape of a delapidated bridge near Rameswar a place of pilgrimage. Pilgrims go there Via Madura, a district in South Madras. The Raja of Ramnud in whose Zemindarī it is situate is called Setupati.
एतत्तु दृश्यते तीर्थ सागरस्य महात्मनः॥ सेतुबन्ध इति ख्यातं त्रैलोक्येन च पूजितम्। एतत्पवित्रं परमं महापातकनाशनम्॥ अत्र राक्षसराजोऽयमाजगाम विभीषणः।