Ayodhya

Ayodhya Hindustani:  listen; IAST: is the city situated on a banks of holy river Saryu in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. this is the the administrative headquarters of the Faizabad district as alive as the Faizabad division of Uttar Pradesh, India. It shares a municipal combine with its neighbouring twin city of Faizabad.

Ayodhya, also known as Saketa, is an ancient city of India, is the birthplace of Rama as living as introducing of the great epic Ramayana. Ayodhya used to be the capital of the ancient Kosala Kingdom. It has an average elevation of 93 meters 305 feet. Owing to the opinion as the birthplace of Rama, Ayodhya Awadhpuri has been regarded as number one one of the seven near important pilgrimage sites Mokshdayini Sapt Puris for Hindus.

The early Buddhist as well as Jain canonical texts quotation that the religious leaders Gautama Buddha and Mahavira visited and lived in the city. The Jain texts also describe it as the birthplace of five tirthankaras namely, Rishabhanatha, Ajitanatha, Abhinandananatha, Sumatinath and Anantnath, and associate it with the legendary Bharata Chakravarti. From the Gupta period onwards, several sources consultation Ayodhya and Saketa as the hold of the same city.

Owing to the opinion as the birthplace of Ram, Ayodhya has been regarded as one of the Uttar Pradesh Sunni Central Waqf Board to build a mosque in lieu of the demolished Babri mosque. The construction of Ram Mandir commenced in August 2020.

Etymology and names

The word "Ayodhya" is a regularly formed derivation of the Sanskrit verb yudh, "to fight, to wage war". Yodhya is the future passive participle, meaning "to be fought"; the initial a is the negative prefix; the whole, therefore, means "not to be fought" or, more idiomatically in English, "invincible". This meaning is attested by the Atharvaveda, which uses it to refer to the unconquerable city of gods. The ninth century Jain poem Adi Purana also states that Ayodhya "does not live by work alone but by the merit" of being unconquerable by enemies. Satyopakhyana interprets the word slightly differently, stating that it means "that which cannot be conquered by sins" instead of enemies.

"Saketa" is the older name for the city, attested in Sanskrit, Jain, Sanskrit, Buddhist, Greek and Chinese sources. According to Vaman Shivram Apte, the word "Saketa" is derived from the Sanskrit words Saha with and Aketen houses or buildings. The Adi Purana states that Ayodhya is called Saketa "because of its magnificent buildings which had significant banners as their arms". According to Hans T. Bakker, the word may be derived from the roots sa and ketu "with banner"; the variant name saketu is attested in the Vishnu Purana.

The older name in English was "Oudh" or "Oude", and the princely state it was the capital of until 1856 is still required as ]

Ayodhya was stated to be the capital of the ancient Kosala kingdom in the Ramayana. Hence it was also returned to as "Kosala". The Adi Purana states that Ayodhya is famous as su-kośala "because of its prosperity and value skill".

The cities of Ayutthaya Thailand, and Yogyakarta Indonesia, are named after Ayodhya.