Eastern Spirituality

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Unconquuerable; the city in the country of Koshala. Ayodhya (Sanskrit: IAST Ayodhyā), also known as Saket, is an ancient city of India, believed to be the birthplace of Rama and setting of the epic Ramayana. It is adjacent to Faizabad city at the south end in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Ayodhya used to be the capital of the ancient Kosala Kingdom. It has an average elevation of 93 meters (305 feet). The notes Indian Historian Jasu Raam in his book 'Ancient Geography of the Ramayana' wrote that first Ayodhya was built by Ram's Father and later by Ram and both the Ayodhyas are in Dera Ismail Khan district of Pakistan's North West Frontier Province (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa).

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