Ayodhya

Proper noun

Meaning

A city, the administrative headquarters of Faizabad district, Uttar Pradesh, India, on the bank of the Sarayu river.

(Hinduism, historical) A legendary city, the ancient capital of Kosala kingdom, and birthplace of the Hindu deity Rāma.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

As a general rule, you can predict what the secularist position on any issue will be once you know what the militant Islamist position is. From justifying terrorism to misrepresenting the Ayodhya evidence, the two are rarely very different. Koenraad Elst

The negationist stand against the pre-existence of the Ayodhya temple was an extreme example of how the Humanities often serve to provide a scholarly veneer to theses that arise purely from political motives. Koenraad Elst

For fourteen years, the secularists had worked hard to keep the lid on the Ayodhya evidence and they didn't want some puny radar scanner or muddy-handed archaeologist to bring the facts to light and thereby expose their mendaciousness. Koenraad Elst

In Ayodhya itself, several Rama temples were destroyed by Aurangzeb (Treta-ka-Thakur and Swargdwar), a fact which even the official polemicists against the Rama-Janmabhoomi have not dared to deny. Koenraad Elst

A train full of pilgrims coming back from the destruction of this Ayodhya mosque which was disputed. The train caught fire; nobody knows who set fire to the train and 57 pilgrims were burnt... Arundhati Roy

You have now. Coming here, I sang a friend-gathering song. Valmiki, I've seen other skies than these, other worlds, and other friends. People are counting on you... and I can hear the chariot from Ayodhya approaching across Ganga. Valmiki

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