# Ayodhya, city of Rama
**अयोध्या, राम की नगरी**

- Canonical page: https://indianepics.online/event/ayodhya/
- Chapter: [Itihasa and Purana](https://indianepics.online/chapter/itihasa.md)
- Track: tradition (Itihasa-Purana; told time, not a calendar date)
- When: Treta Yuga (Ramayana) (Treta Yuga)
- Where: Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh (26.8, 82.2)
- Tags: religion

## Summary

The Ramayana's capital of Kosala, Rama's birthplace and seat, on the Sarayu.

रामायण में कोसल की राजधानी, सरयू तट पर राम की जन्मभूमि और राजगद्दी।

## Account

The Valmiki Ramayana opens in Ayodhya, capital of the Ikshvaku kings of Kosala, and returns there for Rama's coronation.

Excavations by B. B. Lal in the late 1970s and by the ASI in 2003 found occupation going back at least to the Northern Black Polished Ware phase of the first millennium BCE. The Treta Yuga of tradition lies far beyond anything archaeology can date, which is why the two sit on separate tracks here.

## Sources

- Valmiki Ramayana, Bala Kanda (Critical edition, Oriental Institute, Baroda (1960-75))
- B. B. Lal, excavations at Ayodhya (1975-80) (Archaeology of the Ramayana Sites project)
- ASI, excavation report on Ayodhya (2003) (Excavation led by B. R. Mani for the Allahabad High Court)

## Image

A View of Part of the City of Oud. William Hodges, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AAyodhya_seen_from_the_river_Ghaghara%2C_Uttar_Pradesh._Coloure_Wellcome_V0050436.jpg

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