Ayodhya | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-03

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Ayodhya


00:01:31 1 Etymology and names
00:03:24 2 History
00:06:27 2.1 As Saketa
00:11:57 2.2 Gupta period
00:15:11 2.3 Decline as a political centre
00:16:45 2.4 Early medieval period
00:17:59 2.5 Mughal and British period
00:19:37 2.6 Independent India
00:21:56 3 Demographics
00:22:33 4 Geography and climate
00:23:27 5 Places of interest
00:24:04 5.1 Hanuman Garhi Fort
00:24:52 5.2 Ramkot
00:26:08 5.3 Nageshwarnath Temple
00:26:49 5.4 Chakravarti Mahraj Dashrath Mahal
00:28:08 5.5 Other places of interest
00:29:00 5.6 Memorial of Heo Hwang-ok
00:30:14 6 Sister cities
00:30:45 7 Accessibility
00:31:44 8 See also



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Ayodhya (listen ; IAST Ayodhyā) is a city located in Ayodhya District of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is identified with the legendary city of Ayodhya, and as such, is the birthplace of Rama and setting of the epic Ramayana. The accuracy of this identification is central to the Ayodhya dispute: modern scholars variously believe that the present-day Ayodhya is same as the legendary Ayodhya, or that the legendary city is a mythical place that came to be identified with the present-day Ayodhya only during the Gupta period around the 4th-5th century CE.
The present-day city is identified as the location of Saketa, which was an important city of the Kosala mahajanapada in the first millennium BCE, and later served as its capital. The early Buddhist and Jain canonical texts mention that the religious leaders Gautama Buddha and Mahavira visited and lived in the city. The later Jain texts also describe as it the birthplace of five tirthankaras, and associate it with the legendary chakravartins. From the Gupta period onwards, several sources mention Ayodhya and Saketa as the name of the same city.
Owing to the belief as the birthplace of Rama, Ayodhya (Awadh) has been regarded as one of the seven most important pilgrimage sites (Saptapuri) for Hindus. It is believed that the birth spot of Rama was marked by a temple, which is said to have been demolished by the orders of the Mughal emperor Babur and a mosque erected in its place. The Ayodhya dispute concerns the activism by the Hindu groups to rebuild a Rama's temple at the site.