(2002 pop. 51,000). An ancient city also called Ayodhya, Oudh, or Awadh, Ajodhya, now part of the city of Faizabad, lies on the Ghaghara River in the eastern Uttar Pradesh state of northern India. Ajodhya is one of seven holy places for Hindus, revered...

(‘invincible’; modern Oudh) the ancient capital of the kingdom from whose royal family came prince Rāma, the hero of the epic and the seventh incarnation of . It is one of the seven sacred cities of Hinduism and is located on the banks...

Important city in the kingdom of the Kosalas in north-east India in the time of the Buddha. Not to be confused with Ayuthia, equally important city in north of...

Coordinates: 26°48′N 82°12′E / 26.8, 82.2 Ayodhya pronunciation (help·info) (Hindi: अयोध्या, IAST Ayodhyā) is an ancient city of India, the old capital of Awadh, in the Faizabad district of Uttar Pradesh. Ayodhya is...

Police questioned shopkeepers Wednesday as part of investigations into bombs packed strapped to bicycles that exploded a day earlier, slightly wounding six people in northern India.Separately, police found 22 pounds of explosives and several gallons of ammonium nitrate in a railroad station in Faizabad, another...

A series of near-simultaneous explosions ripped through courthouse complexes Friday in three north Indian cities, killing at least 16 lawyers and injuring dozens of other people, officials said.Federal authorities blamed militants trying to spark unrest between India's Hindu majority and Muslim minority for the blasts...