By referring to three copper-plate land grants reportedly found in the area (A.įuhrer, Report of the Archaeological Survey of India (New Series), Volume II, 1891). He tried to confirm Rajput presence in Ayodhya in the 11th and 12th centuries A.D. Fuhrer's report is an extension of the earlier report. He also concluded that the cities of Visakha, Saketa and Ayodhya were the same (A.E.Ĭunningham, 'Report of the Proceedings of the Archaeological Surveyor to the Government of India for the Season of 1862-63,' in Journal of Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1865). He accepted the association of Ayodhya with the traditions of Rama and asserted that the present-day Ayodhya was the Ayodhya of the Ramayana years.

The intention of Cunningham's survey was to re-locate Buddhist sites and to establish the Buddhist antecedents of Ayodhya. Lal conducted a more intensive and revealing study of the area in 1975-76. Narain conducted the third excavation in Ayodhya in 1969-70, and finally, Professor B.B. Cunningham conducted the first survey in Ayodhya in 1862-63 followed by another in 1889-91 by A. The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) report of August 2003 is the fifth on the historical topography of Ayodhya. THE VERDICT ON AYODHYA Was There a Temple under the Babri Masjid? Reading the Archaeological. The Archaeological Survey of India brings out a variety of publications since.

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