Ad-ima

In Indian myth, the first man to arrive in the subcontinent, with his wife (Heva),
from an island overwhelmed by a natural catastrophe that forever cut off all communication
with his homeland. In Sanskrit, the word for “first” is Adim, surprisingly like
the biblical Adam. Later versions of the story identify the lost island with Sri Lanka,
but in that the former Ceylon still exists, Atlantis was undoubtedly the location from
which Ad-ima came. His name, moreover, is identifiably Atlantean, apparent in the
philological relationship between “Ad-ima” and the Greek variant, “Atlas.” This
association is underscored by the antediluvian setting of the Ad-ima myth.
(See Heva)