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- Ayodhya is also known as Saket, a historic Indian city. It is associated with the birth of Lord Rama and the rule of his father, Dasharatha, in the famous epic Ramayana.
- With a big population, the town was affluent and strongly fortified.
- Ayodhya was the early capital of the Kosala kingdom, according to legend. Kosaldeshโs capital city was controlled by a number of notable rulers, including Ikshvaku, Prithu, Mandhata, Harishchandra, Sagar, Bhagirath, Raghu, Dileep, Dashrath, and Ram.
- Shravasti became the kingdomโs capital during Buddhist times, during the 6th-5th centuries BCE. Some academics believe Ayodhya is the same as Saketa, the town where Buddha is claimed to have lived for a period.
- Raja Darshan Singh built the lengthy series of ghats on the River Saryu in the early nineteenth century.
- The riverbank is lined with gorgeous temples devoted to Sita-Ram and Narasingh, and the sacredness of the location has increased the shrines of the Chakrahari and the Guptahari.
- According to Hindu belief, Ayodhya was founded by the fictional man Manu, as chronicled in the Hindu epic Ramayana.
- It then became the capital of the Suryavanshi (Sun) dynasty, whose most famous king was Lord Rama.
- The Athar Veda contains references to Ayodhya as well. In addition, Jain traditions hold that five Tirthankaras were born in Ayodhya.
- Ayodhya is a historic town that is considered one of the Hindusโ seven sacred towns.