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	Ayodhya (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ayodhya is located in center of the state of Uttar Pradesh, in the northern region of India.
		Ayodhya is 130 km east of Lucknow and 6 km from Faizabad.
		Ayodhya city was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Ayodhya, where Lord Ram was born.
	www15.brinkster.com /amdou/tourism/ayodhya.html (606 words)

	Ayodhya Info - Encyclopedia WikiWhat.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It is said to have covered an area of 25,000 hectares (96 square miles), 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 Manu.
		On the revival of Brahmanism, Ayodhya was restored by King Vikramaditya (c.
		In the 7th century, the Chinese pilgrim Xuan Zang observed there were 20 Buddhist temples with 3000 monks at Ayodhya, amongst a large Brahmanical population.
	www.wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/a/ay/ayodhya.html (386 words)

	Tiruvayodhi Rama (Chakravarti Tirumagan) Temple - Divya Desam
		Ayodhya is considered to be one of the 7 Muktistalams of India.
		Ayodhya is believed to be a component of Vaikuntham, given to Manu by Vishnu, and installed on the banks of the Sarayu.
		Ayodhya is very closely associated with the story of Rama (as told in the timeless Indian epic Ramayana).
	www.templenet.com /Tamilnadu/df065.html (229 words)

	Uttar Pradesh, Ayodhya - The birth place of Lord Rama, A sacred Hindu Pilgrimage
		Ayodhya is preeminently a city of temples yet, all places of worship here, are not only of Hindu religion.
		The chief place of worship in Ayodhya is the site of the ancient citadel of Ramkot which stands on an elevated ground in the western part of the city.
		Ayodhya is situated on the broad gauge Northern Railway line on Mughal Sarai – Lucknow main route.
	www.travelmasti.com /domestic/uttarpradesh/ayodhya.htm (1028 words)

	Grover (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ayodhya was held sacred especially by the Vaishnavas and those of the Rama Cult.
		For their hypothesis that the disputed mosque at Ayodhya was built by Hussain Shah Sharqi of Jaunpur in 872 AH (2 August, 1467 - 21 July 1468), the authors have relied on the manuscript of Francis Hamilton Buchanan (1807-1814) # Eur D 91, pp.
		While discussing the mosques in Ayodhya the author stresses the fact that Babur, after having mitigated the Janmasthan temple, located on the birthplace of Maharaja Sri Ramchandraji, built a mosque over it using the ornamented kasauti stones of the same temple in his mosque which was there till date (1919 AD).
	www.wac.uct.ac.za /croatia/grover.htm (9649 words)

	LEADER ARTICLE<BR>Celebrate Ayodhya's Cultural Heritage- The Times of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It is said that during the rule of King Shuddodhana, father of Gautama, Ayodhya was called Saket and it was one of the most prominent pilgrim centres after Shravasti, the capital of Koshal.
		Another important dargah in Ayodhya belongs to Sheesh Paigambar, which the local Muslims feel is the graveyard of Hazarat Sheesh, who it is said, was the first son of Hazarat-e-Adam.
		The diverse cultural heritage of Ayodhya makes it a town which truly deserves to be Indiaâs cultural capital, where diversity is reflected in everyday life in the appreciation and accommodation of different values and systems.
	timesofindia.indiatimes.com /cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?msid=92105 (951 words)

	Koenraad Elst - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		During a stay at the Benaras Hindu University, he discovered India’s communal problem and wrote his first book about the budding Ayodhya conflict.
		While establishing himself as a columnist for a number of Belgian and Indian papers, he frequently returned to India to study various aspects of its ethno-religio-political configuration and interview Hindu and other leaders and thinkers.
		Ayodhya: The Case Against the Temple (2002) ISBN 81-85990-75-1
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Koenraad_Elst (557 words)

	Ayodhya,Ayodhya India,Ayodhya Travel,Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh,Temple Tours of Ayodhya,Lord Rama Birth Place
		On the right bank of the river Ghagra or Saryu, as it is called within sacred precincts, stands the holy city of Ayodhya, believed to be the birth place of lord Rama, the seventh incarnation of lord Vishnu.
		The ancient city of Ayodhya, according to the Ramayana, was founded by Manu, the law-giver of the Hindus.
		Ayodhya is pre-eminently a city of temples yet, all the places of worship here, are not only of Hindu religion.
	www.indiantravelportal.com /uttar-pradesh/ayodhya (1112 words)

	Ayodhya tours,Ayodhya sightseeing,tourist places,places to visit,Ayodhya tourism information,Ayodhya pilgrimage,Ayodhya ...
		A massive structure in the shape of a four sided fort with circular bastions at each corner houses a temple of Hanuman and is the most popular shrine in Ayodhya.
		It is said that this has been the only temple to have survived till the time of Vikramaditya, the rest of city had fallen into ruins and was covered by dense forests.
		Ramkot : The chief place of worship in Ayodhya is the site of the ancient citadel of Ramkot which stands on an elevated ground in the western part of the city.
	www.tourmyindia.com /states/uttar/ayodhyasightseeing.html (732 words)

	AYODHYA OFFENSIVE
		As the renewed Hindutva build-up towards a temple in Ayodhya escalates, the distant echoes from a period of lawlessness that the Bharatiya Janata Party was deeply implicated in, begin once again to resound across the political landscape.
		Rather than continue with the dilatory judicial procedure, the VHP leader suggested, the government would be better advised to engage in direct negotiations with the descendants of Mir Baqi and leaders of the Shia community, to obtain the disputed land for the construction of a temple.
		Yet his acknowledgment that matters of fact and law may have a bearing on the Ayodhya dispute is undoubtedly an indication that with all his commitments to the Ram temple, he is keen to arrive at a compromise deal that will not endanger the stability of the BJP-led government at the Centre.
	www.flonnet.com /fl1904/19040040.htm (2191 words)

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		The Mahants and other people of Ayodhya have floated this organisation in order to fight the VHP plan to convert Ayodhya into a battle ground for their war for power.
		It was also decided that citizens of Ayodhya should resist entry of VHP supporters on 17th October and one person from every house in Ayodhya should take part in it.
		It is indeed heartening that many Mahants and other people of Ayodhya are girding up their lions to fight the VHP campaign, which has nothing to do with building Ramjanambhoomi temple but only to keep alive this controversy for political purposes.
	www.csss-isla.com /archive/2003/october1_15.htm (1648 words)

	The Hindu : Ayodhya solutions
		ANY SOLUTION in Ayodhya must be fair — not just to buy an uneasy peace, but as an enduring tribute to community understanding and secularism.
		The Ayodhya "compromise" could also be included in the Act of 1991 from which it is presently excluded.
		Any solution for Ayodhya is not just a solution for Muslims and Hindus but for Indian secularism — so that India can say to itself and the world that it was fair and just to all.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/2002/03/09/stories/2002030900781000.htm (1183 words)

	Restrictions being eased in Ayodhya - NDTV.com - News on Restrictions being eased in Ayodhya (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Normalcy is fast returning to Ayodhya with the easing of restrictions in the temple town.
		He also said that the Ayodhya issue could be resolved amicably if the government made sincere attempts.
		Siddhiqui added that the entire acquired land at Ayodhya should also be handed over to the army to dispel apprehensions in the minds of the minorities.
	www.ndtv.com /template/template.asp?template=ayodhya&id=8644&callid=0 (777 words)

	Avijit Pathak: From Pokhran to Ayodhya, Meaning of BJP's National Philosophy
		Once again we are witnessing the resurgence of the politics of the temple - an attempt to arouse the passion of Ayodhya and reduce religion to a tool of political mobilization.
		Both Ayodhya and Pokhran, we insist, reveal the assertion of power - the power to consolidate the "nation" and rescue it from its "perpetual enemy".
		But the unity of science and religion that Pokhran and Ayodhya symbolize, as we are arguing, is of a different kind.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Delphi/4119/pokhran.html (810 words)

	Ayodhya - The Truth
		B.R. Grover camped at Ayodhya, during the period when the ground acquired by the UP Government was being levelled up.
		Babar Stayed at Ayodhya: The so-called 'Babri Mosque' was built in 1528 A.D. The Babarnama, Babar's diary of everyday events and autobiography, mentions that on March 28 in the year 1528 Babar came to Ayodhya, called 'Oudh' in those days, and camped on the river-side of a tributary of the Saryu, flowing near the township.
		The meaning of Ayodhya is that India has regained, to a larger extent than hitherto, the capacity to behave and act as a normal living organism.
	www.flex.com /~jai/articles/ayodhya.html (6331 words)

	BBC NEWS \| South Asia \| Q&A: The Ayodhya dispute
		Many believe that Ayodhya, in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, is the birthplace of one of the most revered deities in Hinduism, Lord Rama.
		Ayodhya is mentioned in several Hindu scriptures and has been a place of holy pilgrimage for centuries.
		A month later hardline Hindus held a ceremony at the Ayodhya site as part of their campaign for the construction of a temple.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/south_asia/1843879.stm (461 words)

	Ayodhya braces up for unusual event on Dec 6 - India News - Webindia123.com
		This year, Dec 6 in Ayodhya is going to be different - there will be a mock wedding of Hindu gods Ram and Sita that is expected to draw huge crowds.
		This will be very unlike earlier years when the day draws Hindu hardliners in Ayodhya who renew their resolve to build a grand Ram temple on the rubble of the Babri mosque, the shrine they razed in the town on Dec 6, 1992.
		For the first time since 1992, Dec 6 is going to coincide with 'Ram-Sita Vivah' on the Hindu calendar, a traditional ritual in Ayodhya where Ram, Hindus believe, was born.
	news.webindia123.com /news/showdetails.asp?id=180938&cat=India (419 words)

	Reviews \| Prince of Ayodhya by Ashok K. Banker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In Ashok K. Banker's rendering, the novelty is that the ancient tale gets a modernized version by someone who has passionately studied, researched and lived with the material for the past 20 years.
		Banker's Prince Of Ayodhya is just the length of as it should be -- not abridged as some have been.
		Prince of Ayodhya, the first volume in Ashok K. Banker's Ramayana -based series, opens with Rama, the prince, awakening after a bad dream on a moonlit night in his bedroom chamber.
	www.januarymagazine.com /SFF/prinofayodhya.html (677 words)

	THE FLOP SHOW IN AYODHYA
		Until he assumed his exalted office, the saffron-robed Minister was an activist in the cause of Ayodhya, fighting and winning elections around that single issue.
		The die was cast with the announcement of the schedule for elections to five State Assemblies, including three in the Hindi-speaking region and the National Capital Territory of Delhi.
		First, in an invocation of a strategy successfully deployed in defusing the tensions of the March 2002 mobilisation, the Central and State governments seemed to act in concert in denying all routes of access to the troubled city for VHP activists and volunteers.
	www.flonnet.com /fl2022/stories/20031107006500400.htm (1281 words)

	The Hindu : Other dimensions of Ayodhya
		Therefore, even if scientific evidence were to prove the contrary, Hindus are not going to be persuaded that their god was not born in Ayodhya; and that for this reason alone the place is sacred.
		It is not surprising that every time an election is round the corner, the Ayodhya issue is taken out of the cupboard, dusted, given a fresh coat of varnish, and brandished as a vote-catching device.
		For, a number of narratives can be historically constructed out of Ayodhya — narratives of toleration, narratives of inter-religious faith, narratives of how people belonging to diverse religious persuasions had managed to carve out regions of belonging.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/2003/03/08/stories/2003030800271000.htm (1225 words)

	Ayodhya - The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition - HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		AYODHYA [Ayodhya] or Ajodhya, former town, Uttar Pradesh state, N India, on the Ghaghara River.
		Ayodhya was the capital of the kingdom of Kosala (7th cent.
		Long associated with Hindu legend of Rama and his father Dasharatha (see Ramayana), the town is a center of pilgrimage and is one of the seven sites sacred to Hindus.
	www.highbeam.com /doc/1E1:Ayodhya/Ayodhya.html?refid=ip_hf (149 words)

	6 militants storm Ayodhya temple, killed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Six heavily armed terrorists, who made an attempt to storm the high-security makeshift Ram temple in Ayodhya were killed before they could make it to the shrine.
		Police sources said the arrested driver Rehan is a resident of Ayodhya and he was being interrogated.
		Four AK 47 and AK 56 rifles, some hand grenades and ammunition were recovered from the bodies of the slain militants, they said.
	us.rediff.com /news/2005/jul/05ayo.htm (426 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Archive Search
		There was no evidence that Babur had ever been to Ayodhya, or that this restless, melancholic conqueror from Samarkand, a connoisseur of architecture, could have built an ugly mosque over an existing Ram temple.
		Advani had then said, "I am sure it will translate into votes." Appropriately, he began his journey to Ayodhya from the temple in Somnath, Gujarat, which was looted by a Turk conqueror in the 11th century AD and which had been lavishly rebuilt in the early 1950s.
		But as the movement to build the temple intensified, entrepreneurs of religiosity such as Paramhans were repackaged by nationalist politicians as sages and saints, while Ram himself evolved from the benign, almost feminine, calendar-art divinity of my childhood to the vengeful Rambo of Hindu nationalist posters.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Archive/Article/0,4273,4386875,00.html (2492 words)

	Ayodhya and After - Chapter 8 - The Misuse of History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		When it comes to dealing with the history of persecution and temple destruction by the Muslims, secularist historians throw all regard for hard evidence to the wind and replace it with a purely deductive (which is typically medieval) approach : Islam is tolerant, therefore the destruction and persecution cannot have taken place.
		Mahadevan's remarks on the Ayodhya affair and against the JNU historians, have received support from another archaeologist, Muhammed K.K., deputy superintending archaeologist of the ASI Madras circle.
		In the Ayodhya debate, he has played a fairly prominent role, with his book Communal History and Rama's Ayodhya, published in December 1990, with his interviews and public statements on the matter, and with his participation for the Babri side in the VHP-BMAC discussion on the historical evidence.
	www.bharatvani.org /books/ayodhya/ch8.htm (9107 words)

	Ayodhya: Questions of History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This Purana has a chapter extolling the greatness of Ayodhya (Ayodhya Mahatmya) which appears towards the end of the work and which clearly is a later addition.
		The earliest mention of Ayodhya as a place of pilgrimage is in the A'in-i-Akbari by Abul Fazl who completed it in AD Abul Fazl includes Ayodhya among the important places of pilgrimage in India.
		In the chapter on Ayodhya, he gives a detailed account of an extensive area called Ayodhya where Ramnavmi festival is celebrated and which is esteemed to be one of the holiest places of antiquity.
	muslimsonline.com /babri/babrikpp.htm (1963 words)

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