

Times of India, Īrcheological Survey of India (2003) Ayodhyā, 2002–2003: examination at the disputed site. The town is currently best known for the controversy about this site, adorned till 1992 by the Bābrī Masjid, since then by a makeshift Rama temple.Īnanthakrishnan G (2006) Thomas’s visit under doubt. A few years later, in 1528, Bābar, founder of the Moghul dynasty, invaded the area and had a mosque built by his lieutenant Mīr Bāqī on the site deemed Rama’s birthplace. Nanak went on pilgrimage to Ayodhya, where he claimed to have had Rama’s darśan (sighting of the deity).

It is also central to Sikhism, with Guru Govind Singh claiming Rama as a direct paternal ancestor of both founder Gurū Nānak and himself. The latter considered himself a reincarnation of Rāma as per Dāśaratha Jātaka and Anāmaka Jātaka (, p. It is deemed to house the birthplace of Rāma ( Rāma Janmabhūmi) and of several Jaina Tīrthaṁkaras including the very first, and to have been visited by Mahāvīra Jīna and by the Buddha (, p. Ayodhyā is a town on the Sarayu river, a northern tributary of the Gaṅgā, north from Allahabad in eastern Uttar Pradesh.
