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"There is situated Saketa, the best of the cities. In that city there is an extremely beautiful village known as Ramaniya."
"[Pilgrims] resort to this vicinity, where the remains of the ancient city of Oude, and capital of the Great Rama are still to be seen. [religious mendicants] walk round the temples and idols, bathe in the holy pools, and perform the customary ceremonies"

Ayodhya is a city situated on the banks of the Sarayu river in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is the administrative headquarters of the Ayodhya district as well as the Ayodhya division of Uttar Pradesh, India. Ayodhya became the top tourist destination of Uttar Pradesh with 110 million visitors in the first half of 2024, surpassing Varanasi.
"There is situated Saketa, the best of the cities. In that city there is an extremely beautiful village known as Ramaniya."
"Without Raama, this is not Ayodhyaa"
"The excavations revealed that the settlement at Ayodhya began with a phase when a very distinctive and deluxe pottery called the Northern Black Polished Ware (NBPW) had come into being... Without any break, the settlement continued through what are known as the Sunga, Kushan and Gupta periods."
"In Ayodhya itself, several Rama temples were destroyed by Aurangzeb (Treta-ka-Thakur and Swargdwar), a fact which even the official polemicists against the Rama-Janmabhoomi have not dared to deny."
"This story shed its lustre at Ayodhya. On this day of Sri Ramas birth the presiding spirits of all holy places flock there..."
"P Carnegy has written that Ayodhyaa is to the Hindus what Mecca is to the Mahomedon and Jerusalem to the Jews RT Griffith, the celebrated translator of Vaalmiki Raamayana, was of the opinion that ‘Ajudhyaa is the Jerusalem or Mecca of the Hindus’"