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Encyclopedia Britannica



AJODHYA

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 453 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: AJA-ALL
AJODHYA , an ancient city of India, the prehistoric
capital
  of Oudh, in the Fyzabad
district
  of the United Provinces. It is situated on the right bank of the Gogra. In the present 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 Indian cities. , It is said to have covered an area of 96 m., and was the
capital
  of the kingdom of Kosala, the
court
  of the
great
  king Dasaratha, the fifty-
sixth
  monarch of the Solar line in descent from Raja Mann. The opening chapters of the Ramayana recount the magnificence of the city, the glories of the monarch and the virtues, wealth and loyalty of his people. Dasaratha was the father of Rama Chandra, the hero of the epic. A period of Buddhist supremacy followed the death of the last king of the Solar dynasty. On the revival of
Brahmanism
  Ajodhya was restored by King
Vikramaditya
  (c. 57 B.c.). Kosala is also famous as the early
home
  of Buddhism, and of the kindred religion of Jainism, and claims to be the birthplace of the founders of both these faiths. The Chinese traveller, Hsfian Tsang, in the 7th century, found 20 Buddhist temples with 3000 monks at Ajodhya among a large Brahmanical population. The modern town of Ajodhya contains 96 Hindu temples and 36 Mussulman mosques. Little local
trade
  is carried on, but the
great
 
fair
  of Ramnami held every year is attended by about 5oo,000 people.


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