Ayodhya –
Ayodhya is a city and the administrative headquarters of Faizabad district{officially Ayodhya district) and the Faizabad division of Uttar Pradesh, India. It shares a municipal corporation with its neighboring twin town of Faizabad.
The city is identified by some with the legendary city of Ayodhya, and
as such, as being the birthplace of Lord Rama and setting of the epic Ramayna.
The accuracy of this identification is central to the Ayodya dispute: modern
scholars variously believe that the Present-day Ayodhya is some as the
legendary Ayodhya, or that a legendary city is a mythical place that
cine to be identified with the present-day Ayodhya only during the Gupta period around the 4th- 5th
century.
The present-day city is identified as the location
of Saketa, which was an important city of the Kosala maha janapad in the first millennium Bc, and later served as its capital.
The early Buddhist and Jain canonical texts mention that the religious leader Gautama Buddha and Mahavira visited and lived in the city. The Jain texts also describe it as the birthplace of five Tirthankaras namely, Rishabhanatham Ajitanatha, Abhinandananatha, Sumatinath, and Ananthath, and associate it with the legendary Chakravartins. From the Guota period onwards, several sources mention Ayodhya and Saketa as the name of the same city. Owing to the belief as to the birthplace of Rama, Ayodha(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 disputed mosque erected in its place. In 1992, it lead to the demolition
of the Babri Mosque by Hindu mobs with the aim to replace it with a temple of Rama.
The Ayodhya dispute concerned activism by Hindu groups to rebuild a grand
temple of Rama at the site of Janmabhoomi. The five judges of the Supreme court
bench heard the title dispute cases from August to October 2019. On 9 November
2019, the supreme court, headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi.





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