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AJODHYA

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 453 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AJODHYA , an See also:

ancient See also:city of See also:India, the prehistoric See also:capital of Oudh, in the See also:Fyzabad See also:district of the See also:United Provinces. It is situated on the right See also:bank of the See also:Gogra. In the See also:present See also:day the old city has almost entirely disappeared, and its site is marked only by a heap of ruins; but in remote antiquity Ajodhya was one of the largest and most magnificent of See also:Indian cities. , It is said to have covered an See also:area of 96 m., and was the capital of the See also:kingdom of Kosala, the See also:court of the See also:great See also:king Dasaratha, the fifty-See also:sixth monarch of the See also:Solar See also:line in descent from See also:Raja See also:Mann. The opening chapters of the Ramayana recount the magnificence of the city, the glories of the monarch and the virtues, See also:wealth and See also:loyalty of his See also:people. Dasaratha was the See also:father of Rama Chandra, the See also:hero of the epic. A See also:period of Buddhist supremacy followed the See also:death of the last king of the Solar See also:dynasty. On the revival of See also:Brahmanism Ajodhya was restored by King See also:Vikramaditya (c. 57 B.c.). Kosala is also famous as the See also:early See also:home of See also:Buddhism, and of the kindred See also:religion of Jainism, and claims to be the birthplace of the founders of both these faiths. The See also:Chinese traveller, Hsfian Tsang, in the 7th See also:century, found 20 Buddhist temples with 3000 monks at Ajodhya among a large Brahmanical See also:population. The See also:modern See also:town of Ajodhya contains 96 See also:Hindu temples and 36 Mussulman mosques.

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local See also:trade is carried on, but the great See also:fair of Ramnami held every See also:year is attended by about 5oo,000 people.

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