Adam's Peak (also
Sri Pada; Sinhalese
Samanalakanda - සමනළ කන්ද "Butterfly Mountain"; Arabic
Al-Rohun, and also ශ්රී පාදය "Sri Paadaya"; Tamil
Sivanolipatha Malai - சிவனொளி பாதமலை), is a tall conical
mountain located in central
Sri Lanka. It is well known for the
Sri Pada, i.e., "sacred footprint", a rock formation near the summit, which in
Buddhist tradition is held to be the
footprint of the Buddha, in
Hindu tradition that of
Shiva and in
Islamic and
Christian tradition that of
Adam, or that of St. Thomas.