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| '''Sāketa''', in [[Sanskrit]], a place where [[God]] resides. ''Saket'' can be alternatively used for [[Heaven]] or ''[[Vaikuntha]]'' in [[Hindu epic|Hindu epics]], where liberated souls dwell.<ref name="Tulasīdāsa1989">{{cite book|author=Tulasīdāsa|title=Gosvāmī Tulasīdāsakr̥ta Śrīrāmacaritamānasa|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BiYt00x5tcQC&pg=PA892|accessdate=25 July 2013|year=1989|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass |isbn=978-81-208-0443-2|pages=892–}}</ref>
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| "Saketa", the name of the Ayodhya Kingdom was later widespread by Buddhist travellers and far away traders for the collective name of the region's under this Kingdom. Overall, according to early chronicles found in Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi, Sanskrit literature and "Ramayana" and "Ramacharitamanas" the city bears name of Ayodhya Kingdom, not Sakēta.
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| ==In literature==
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| ''Saket'' (1932), a famous [[Hindi]] [[epic poem]] by [[Maithili Sharan Gupt]], a modern-version of ''[[Ramcharitmanas]]'', which described an ideal [[Hindu]] society and Rama as an ideal man.<ref name="Satyendra2000">{{cite book|author=Kuśa Satyendra|title=Dictionary Of Hindu Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UcAwrV60cpAC&pg=PA71|accessdate=25 July 2013|year=2000|publisher=Sarup & Sons|isbn=978-81-7625-159-4|pages=71–}}</ref><ref name="Pollet1995">{{cite book|author=Gilbert Pollet|title=Indian Epic Values: Rāmāyaṇa and Its Impact : Proceedings of the 8th International Rāmāyaṇa Conference, Leuven, 6-8 July 1991|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EVnK3q48dL0C&pg=PA198|accessdate=25 July 2013|year=1995|publisher=Peeters Publishers|isbn=978-90-6831-701-5|pages=198–}}</ref> It is an account of the ''[[Ramayana]]'' through the eyes of [[Urmila (Ramayana)|Urmila]], daughter of King [[Janaka]] of [[History of Mithila|Mithila]] and the younger sister of [[Sita]], who later became wife of [[Lakshmana]].{{Cn|date=July 2021}}
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| ==In Buddhism==
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| In [[Buddhism]], the place is thought to be where the sons of Okkaka founded a city.{{Cn|date=July 2021}}
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| Ayodhya signifies a great importance in the Buddhist literature. It is referred to as Saket in traditional Buddhist literature. British archaeologist Alexander Cunningham who was also the first director general of the ASI identified three Buddhist places — Mani Parbat, Kuber Parbat and Sugriv Parbat at the site of Ayodhya.{{Cn|date=July 2021}}
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| ==See also==
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| * [[Swarga]]
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| * [[Ikshvaku]]
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| == References ==
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| {{Reflist}}
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| {{HinduMythology}}
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| [[Category:Locations in Hindu mythology]]
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| [[Category:Heaven]]
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| [[Category:Hindu cosmology]]
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| [[Category:Indian masculine given names]]
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