ayodhya ram mandir history

AYODHYA RAM MONDIR HISTORY:

According to historians, the ancient capital of Kaushal region, Awadh, came to be called Ayodhya and Saket in the Buddhist period. Ayodhya was originally a city of temples. However, the remains of temples associated with Hindu, Buddhist and Jainism can be seen even today. According to Jainism, 5 Tirthankaras including Adinath were born here. According to Buddhism, Lord Buddha had a monastery here for a few months.

 

 

Ayodhya was settled by Vaivasvata Manu, the son of Vivaswan (Surya), ancestor of Lord Rama, since then the rule of Suryavanshi kings ruled this city till the Mahabharata period. It was here that Lord Shri Ram was born in the palace of Dasharatha. Maharishi Valmiki has also compared the beauty and importance of birthplace in Ramayana to other Indraloks. Valmiki Ramayana is also described in the city of Ayodhya, with incomparable hues and skyscrapers of the city of Ayodhya filled with money and jewels.

 

 

It is said that after Lord Shri Ram's water samadhi, Ayodhya became desolate for some time, but the palace built on his birthplace was like that. Lord Sri Ram's son Kush once again rebuilt the capital Ayodhya. After this construction, its existence continued till the last king, Maharaja Brihadbal, for the next 44 generations of Suryavansh. Kaushalraj Brihadbal died at the hands of Abhimanyu in the Mahabharata war. After the war of Mahabharata, Ayodhya became desolate, but the existence of Shri Ram's birthplace still remained.

After this, it is mentioned that about 100 years before Christ, Chakravarti Emperor Vikramaditya of Ujjain reached Ayodhya by shooting one day. Due to fatigue, he started resting with his army under a mango tree on the banks of river Saryu in Ayodhya. At that time there was a dense forest here. There was no habitation here either. Maharaja Vikramaditya saw some miracles in this land. Then he started the search and by the grace of the nearby yogis and saints, he came to know that this is the Awadh land of Shri Ram. With the instruction of those saints, the emperor built a grand temple here as well as wells, tanks, palaces etc. It is said that he had built a huge temple on 84 pillars of black colored stone stones at Sri Ram Janmabhoomi. The grandeur of this temple was built on seeing it.

 

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Later kings of Vikramaditya took care of this temple from time to time. One of them, the first ruler of the Sunga dynasty, Pushyamitra Sunga also got the temple renovated. An inscription of Pushyamitra was received from Ayodhya in which he is called the Senapati and he describes the two Ashwamedha yagyas performed. It is known from many inscriptions that Ayodhya was the capital of the Gupta Empire during the time of Gupta dynasty Chandragupta II and for a long time thereafter. The Gupta Mahakavi Kalidasa has mentioned Ayodhya several times in Raghuvansh.

 

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According to historians, 600 BC was an important trade center in Ayodhya. The place gained international recognition during the 5th century BCE when it developed into a major Buddhist center. Its name then was Saket. It is said that the Chinese monk Fa-hien noticed here that a record of many Buddhist monasteries has been kept. It was here that the Chinese traveler Hentsang came in the 7th century. According to him, there were 20 Buddhist temples and 3,000 monks lived here and there was also a major and grand temple of Hindus, where thousands of people used to come to visit every day.

 

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After this, in the 11th century AD, Kannauj King Jaichand came and he inscribed his name on the temple by uprooting the commendation inscription of Emperor Vikramaditya. Jaichand also came to an end after the battle of Panipat. After this, the attack of invaders on India increased further. The invaders looted Kashi, Mathura as well as Ayodhya and continued the process of breaking the idols by killing priests. But till the 14th century they were not able to break the Ram temple in Ayodhya.

 

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Even after various invasions, the grand temple built on the birthplace of Shri Ram survived all the troubles till the 14th century. It is said that the temple was present here during the reign of Alexander Lodi. In the 14th century, the Mughals took control of India and only after that many campaigns were carried out to destroy the Ram Janmabhoomi and Ayodhya. Finally in 1527-28 this grand temple was dismantled and replaced by the Babri structure.

 

 

It is said that a commander of Babar, the founder of the Mughal Empire, had built a mosque, which existed till 1992, during the Bihar campaign by breaking the ancient and magnificent temple located at the birthplace of Shri Ram in Ayodhya.

 

 

According to Babarnama, during the Ayodhya stay , Babur ordered the construction of the mosque. This is also indicated by two messages inscribed in the mosque built in Ayodhya. It is particularly notable in this. Its essence is, 'Till Jannat, which has the expenses of justice, at the behest of such great ruler Babur, the merciful Mir Baki made this place of angels complete.'

 

 

Although it is also said that this land was handed over to the Hindus as a platform during the reigns of Akbar and Jahangir, but the cruel ruler Aurangzeb fulfilled his ancestor Babar's dream by constructing a grand mosque here named Babri Masjid. had put.