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The word "Ayodhya" is a regularly formed derivation of the Sanskrit verb yudh, "to fight, or wage war". [22] 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". [23]
Ayodhya is a city mentioned in the ancient Sanskrit-language texts, including the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. These texts describe it as the capital of the Ikshvaku ...
Ayodhya is a town in northern India that, for centuries, was home to the Babri Masjid. The mosque was built in 1527 by a general associated with the Mughal Emperor Babur and was a rare surviving ...
The Ayodhya dispute is a political, historical, and socio-religious debate in India, centred on a plot of land in the city of Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh.
Hindus say the site in Ayodhya was holy to them long before Muslim Mughals razed a temple there to build the 1528 Babri mosque, destroyed in 1992. The mosque's destruction was followed by ...
Hindu zealots razed a 16th century mosque in the northern Indian city of Ayodhya in 1992, saying that it was built over an ancient temple on the site that marked the birthplace of Hindu god-king Ram.
Idols of Rama and Sita in Kanak Bhawan, Ayodhya. The temple was designed as a huge palace. The architecture of this temple resembles the palaces of Rajasthan and Bundelkhand. The history basically goes back to Treta Yuga when it was given by Rama's step-mother Kaikeyi to his wife Sita as a gift over marriage. Over the time, it became ...
The Ram Mandir (ISO: Rāma Maṁdira, lit. ' Rama Temple ') is a partially constructed Hindu temple complex in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh, India. [6] [7] Many Hindus believe that it is located at the site of Ram Janmabhoomi, the mythical birthplace of Rama, [c] a principal deity of Hinduism.