The old town, the old stories related to this town, are the same as those related to Ram’s Ayodhya, which are the basis of India. Awadh Nagri, Ayodhya is the city of temples. This is the temple of Hindus, the birthplace of Sri Ram.
It is said that the Ayodhya city was inhabited by the son of the great Surya, Vivaswan, the former Lord of Ram. But after taking the Jal Samadhi of the Lord, Ayodhya was abandoned for a while. It is said that the son of Ram Kush re -established Ayodhya once again.
After that, he was on the throne of the next generation of the Surya. After the war of Mahabharat, Ayodhya was deserted again. Ayodhya had to face the war many times.
Many campaigns were also run by the Mughals to destroy Ayodhya. Babri Dhaacha was established in the temple. Mosques were made by demolishing grand temples. But the birthplace of Sri Ram could never be destroyed.
The story of Ayodhya Nagri is also old than the third age. The story of the Ayodhya temple is not possible to understand in words. and it is impossible to understand its fundamental, religious and ancient beliefs in words.
History of Ram Temple
The history behind Ram Temple in Ayodhya is deeply rooted in the Indian religion and cultural heritage. According to Hindu mythology stories, Ayodhya is considered as the birthplace of the warrior Ram in Mahakaavya RAMAYAN
After the death of Lord Ram, with all PRAJA, Ayodhya was in this deserted state for many years. Later, Koshambi King, Kush, re-established Ayodhya again. This description is found in the granth of Kalidas “Raghuvansh”.
According to the Jain tradition, Ayodhya was once again established by Rishabh Dev. According to the Bhavishya Puran, King Vikramaditya of Ujjain once again established the Ayodhya again. According to religious texts, he was the devotee of Lord Vishnu.
He established 360 temples assuming the Laxman Ghat of the Saryu river as base. He also established a sacred temple on the land of Lord Ram. After Vikramaditya, the kings also saw the Ayodhya Ram temple at the time.
One of the kings of the same kingdom, the first king of the Shung Vansh, Pushyamitra Shung, had renovated the Ayodhya Ram temple at his time. The inscription of Pushyamitra has also been obtained from Ayodhya in which, description of two Ashwamedha Yagya’s are also found in Ayodhya. In the divine form known as Ayodhya Ram temple, many records are found from which it is found that during the kingdom of Samarath Chandra Gupta II (King Of Gupta Dynasty) and for many years after that, Ayodhya was the capital of the Gupta Empire.
According to the stories of the Modern times, Before 600 A.C. Ayodhya was a very important business centre. This place was recognized internationally during the 5th century, when it was developed as a Buddhism centre of the world. It was then called Saket, which is also the ancient name of Ayodhya Ram Janmabhumi.
Many of the ancient temples of Ayodhya Ram Mandir were also visited by Chinese scholars. In the 7th century, Chinese traveller Hiuen Tsang also visited here. According to him, there were 20 buddha temples where 3000 monks lived. And here was a main and great Ayodhya Ram Mandir of Hindus. Thousands of people used to come to visit temples daily. According to the historians, in the 11th century King Jaychand of Kannauj ruled.
He replaced name of King Vikramaditya with his name on the inscription of the Ayodhya Ram Mandir. After the war of Panipat, Jaychand also ended. After this, foreign invaders attacks on India increased.
These invaders also robbed the Ayodhya Ram Mandir with Kashi and Mathura and killed the priests to break the statues. But after many such attacks, Ayodhya Ram Mandir was still alive with his devotee, till 14th century.
According to historians, until the reign of Sikandar Lodi Ayodhya Ram Mandir was still alive. But in 14th century, the Mughals had the right to rule over India. After that, the history of the Ayodhya Ram Temple began to change.
Many efforts were made to destroy the Ayodhya city by the Mughals. Finally, in 1528 -29, this sacred Ayodhya Ram Temple was destroyed. And instead, the soldier of Babar, the Mughal king, Mir Baqi, built a structure like a mosque.
According to Babarnaama, during 1528, Babar had ordered to built the mosque on the site of the Ram Janma Bhoomi. It is also known that the two signs in the mosque in which, a message has been specifically mentioned and it is : “Jannat tak jiske nyaay ke charche hai, aise mahaan shashak babar ke Aadesh par dayalu Mir Baqi ne farishto ki is jagah ko mukammal roop diya”
Although it is also mentioned that in the reign of Akbar and Jahangir, Ram Janma Bhumi was given in form of a platform to Hindus.
The European, Joseph Tiefenthaler’s account description, according to Indiae, platform remained as a symbol of the Ram Mandir even at this time. But during the cruel reign of Aurangzeb, the governor of Ayodhya, Fidai Khan, in 1660 AD, he complete the structure of mosque into a sacred mosque.
After this, constantly the movement continued again and again to built the temple. Although its construction was a long -term religious and cultural struggle.
In 1853, the time of British government, riots occurred around the Ram Mandir and Babari Mosque for the first time. In 1859, the British allowed the Muslims to enter the mosque and the Hindus to worship the Ram Mandir on the platform to stop these type of riots.
Along with this, the British administration separated these two places from each other and to avoid dispute between the religious and religious believers, the fence was also built between them.
In 1885, for the first time, Mahant Raghubeer Das filed a petition in the Faizabad court for the construction of a temple near the Babri Masjid, which the court rejected. In 1934, the communal riots occurred in Ayodhya and Shahjahanpur in which mosque was also damaged. But later, this mosque was repaired once again. In this building, in 1944, the commissioner of Sunni Waqf declared the land of Babri Mosque as Sunni property. He told that Babar was a Sunni Muslim. This land comes under Waqf board. In 1947, India was liberated. After some time, in the history of the Ram Janma Bhoomi Temple, it takes a different turn on 23rd December 1949. On that day, the presence of statue of Ram Lala was suddenly found in the temple. The dispute escalated so much that finally that it was forced to seal the building by the late government. The prayer was stopped in the building.
But outside, the prayer was not stopped in the other parts of the Ram Chabutra and Parisar. And from here, this controversy was continued every passing year. The legal war started in 1950.
Gopal Visharad and Ram Chandra Das filed two petition to allow Ram Lala statue to stay there and to worship in building and to allow them in the Firozabad Civil Court. In 1969, Nirmohi Akhada also filed the third petition.
In 1961, UP Sunni Waqf board filed petition to take over the place of the building and to remove the statues from the building. But time passed. The petitions and the complaints continued.
In 1980, a party of the Jansang and Janta Party had joined the party and named it as Bhartiya Janta Party.
That is why the party was in a 40 year long struggle against Hindutva. Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the first leader. And from the beginning of 1980, Vajpayee had made Ram Janmabhoomi a subject. In fact, the place where the Babari Mosque was located, RSS started a movement for liberation of Ayodhya Ram Janmasthaan, which was integrated with Hindutva politics by the BJP.
In 1984, Bhajpa was given two reasons to get very little success. One is the soft Hindutva of BJP and the other is the Congress get support for the Indian Gandhi’s death.
In Lok Sabha, Congress got 414 seats. At the end of the 20th century, the stress increased. Because 25 years later, in 1986, on petition of U.C.Pandey, K .M. Pandey, the district judge of Faizabad, ordered to remove the lock from the building, is the historic decision of 1st February, 1986.
He also gave permission to worship to Hindus. Further, in August 1989, Allahabad High Court, took the title suit from Faizabad district court in their own hands and ordered to keep the worship and namaaz to be continue on the land of Faizabad.
In November 1989, the late Rajiv Gandhi government gave permission for foundation to Hindus on the disputed land near Vishwa Hindu Parishad. This led to the excitement of BJP and Hindu organizations at high peak. But the country and especially Uttar Bharat, went to the communal violence.
According to a figure, in the communal violence around 800 people were killed. BJP raised the issue of the Ram Temple in the General Elections of the 1989 and with the support of BJP, V .P. Singh government was elected with 85 seats. To make this success, in September 1990, the late Adhyaksh Lal Krishna Adwani, decided to do Sri Ram Rath Yatra which leads to a new turn in Ram Janmabhoomi Andolan.
1990 brought a challenge to the Ayodhya. V .P. Singh appointed the Mandal Commission.
In September 1990, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, RSS and BJP initiated a movement to build Ram Mandir. The situation became very serious when BJP leader Lal Krishna Aadwani took out the RATH YATRA from Somnath to Ayodhya. A big crowd followed him. And as he was watching, a big crowd was growing up and moves toward disputed land.
The BJP’s supported, V .P. Singh’s government wanted to stop Aadwani’s journey in any form. On the other hand, BJP decided that they would take the support back against stopping the RATH YATRA.
V .P Singh also felt this. But history had decided its course. On 14th October 1990, the country’s capital was looking at a new form of politics. Its colour was Bhagwa. The colourful flags of Bhagwa were waving in the hands.
Kesariya Patti on the forehead. And Ram on the lips. When Aadwani’s Rath came in the Delhi’s cannaught palace, it seemed that Delhi was a city of any old ancient story. After the destination of Ram Rath Yatra in Delhi, the Sangh family felt for the first time that Ayodhya is the only issue that can reunite the Sangh family.
On 18th October, Lal Krishna Aadwani reached Bihar via train. A long night between Delhi and Bihar, something else was being written on the hotline of politics. The V .P. Singh was understanding the concept of politics.
He did not want to stop the Rath Yatra’s credit to be remembered by the Chief Minister of UP, Mulayam Singh Yadav. But Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav decided to stop Rath Yatra.
And he declared the rule of the entire lockdown. On 30th October 1990, there was a state of strain. Because the police had stopped all the bus and train services for Ayodhya. But it had no effect on the car service.
They reached by foot to the Saryu river and crossed the river. The disputed building was fully seiged. According to the report of the Labour Party, Uttar Pradesh posted 28000 in Ayodhya to siege the area.
It was around 10 am when Vamadav, Nritya Gopal Das and Ashok Singhal led a group of car service and they moved towards the incident spot. Police tried to stop them. But they were not able to stop them. After about an hour, one Sadhu managed to hijack the police’s constabulary bus in which all the arrested car servicemen were.
He started running towards the mosque after breaking the barricades. Other car servicemen also started running after the bus. After looking at this, the police force was very shocked. They started following about 5000 car servicemen.
After that, Bhagwa flag was put up on the Babari mosque. Then, a lot of people were killed. The police force fired at the crowd. Five people were killed in the fire. Many people were killed because of the head injury.
A lot of people were killed in the fire. After this incident, on 2 November, the car servicemen again started running towards the Babari mosque. The police tried to tear the crowd apart by charging the gas and the stick. Some car servicemen were successful in reaching the mosque.
They damaged the mosque. The police fired another time in 72 hours. The police also killed many car servicemen in which Kothari brothers were also included. They were dragged out of a house according to the story.
Later, Mulayam Singh Yadav termed the order for firing as “agonising but necessary” because the High Court had issued instructions to maintain peace, law and order until the verdict was delivered . The political party was again turned around along with the central government.
The government of the country has also changed. The government of the P .V. Narsimha Rao was in the centre. Mulayam Singh lose elections in the UP and Kalyan Singh was in the government. The situation has been getting worse day by day.
Meetings organised, there were arguments. But no solution come out from any meeting. The political color of religion has again been changed with the political movement in Ayodhya until 5 December.
Everyone was waiting for the next morning. On 6 December, 1922, a significant turn came. When the RSS and its members established a rally of 1 ,50 ,000 VHPs and BJP car servicemen at the disputed spot.
On the verge of the crowd, leaders like Adwani, Murli Manohar Joshi and Uma Bharti gave speeches. During the noon time, one youth was able to cross the seiged area and went to the Babri mosque and put up the Bhagwa flag.
It was seen as a sign of a crowd. The one who attack on the Babri mosque. The police were very much involved in the security of the Babri mosque. But the crowd was more involved than them. The crowd attacked the building with knives and axes.
In a few hours, the Babri mosque was destroyed which was made with mud and chalk. This incident of the VHP made a significant turn in the history of the Indian society. The entire country was in the midst of a violent attack .
Many cities of Mumbai, Surat, Ahmedabad, Kanpur, Delhi, Ayodhya and UP came to the violence base. According to a report, about 2000 people were killed in these riots.
About 900 people were killed in Mumbai alone. In response to the Ayodhya, Mumbai was mostly burnt. On 12th March, 1993, one after the other, there were 13 serial bombs blasts, in which about 350 people were killed. And about 1000 people were injured. India had felt the pain of the serial blast for the first time. Along with this, a long string of legal fights began to started.
Hindu and Muslim communities presented their claims to various parties, which led to a long legal process. The political path hurt the hearts. It changed the country’s direction and condition.
Legal battle for Ram Temple
The legal process related to the Ayodhya dispute was carried out by several centuries, including many petitions, complaints and appeal.
The legal process was carried out by several courts, to prove the correct existence of the disputed spot, and to investigate the legal process. The legal process was carried out. The opposition was appealed against various forms and was turned back to them.
In April 2002, Allahabad High Court started hearing about the rights of the owners of the land. On 30th September 2010, Allahabad High Court decided to distribute the property to three invaders by the decision of two of the judges. 1/3rd to the Nirmohi Akhada, 1/3rd to the Muslims, and 1/3rd to the Hindus.
In January 2011, the Supreme Court stopped the decision of the High Court after seeing many evidences. In the course of the next year, the Supreme Court tried to solve the issue, but nothing came out of the court.
Finally, in Leadership of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi’s, 5 members of the Constitutional Bench, heard the marathon for 40 days and decided to keep the decision safely on the legal basis on 16th October, 2019.
At the end, on 9th November 2019, the historic day came when the Supreme Court resolved this centuries-old dispute once and for all.
The court ruled in favor of the construction of a Hindu temple on the disputed site. It also directed the government to allocate an alternative piece of land for the construction of a mosque. The court emphasized that the demolition of the Babri Masjid in 1992 was illegal and a violation of law. This decision aimed to bring an end to decades of legal and social conflict over the Ayodhya land, and it had significant implications for religious and communal relations in India. The verdict was seen as an attempt to find a balance between the interests of the Hindu and Muslim communities involved in the dispute
The court has directed to the Narendra Modi government to make a trust within 3 months.
And then the construction of the Ram Temple was started. The construction of the Ram Temple was started on 5 August 2020 with the auspicious worship ceremony started with Ayodhya. This ceremony inspired the construction of the temple and in this, various religious leaders, political parties and religious people participated.
There was a prayer and prayer in the ceremony in which the temple was given a holy place and the divine blessing was asked for the success of the temple. The architectural plans of the Ram Temple show the traditional and modern elements.
The temple’s imagination is shaped as a divine blessing with which the Jattel Nakashi, Gumbad and Shikhar are placed. This design is inspired by ancient Indian temple architecture. In particular, it strengthens the modern Indian tradition.
It strengthens the modern sculptor and sculptor make this vision alive. This makes sure that the temple is a symbol of the cultural heritage of India.
Conclusion
Now the long wait for the 425th year of the Ayodhya Ram Temple has ended.
The Ram Temples inauguration has happened in the name of the holy temple on 22nd January 2024.Many People celebrated Diwali on this day as Prime Minister Narendra Modi requested to public to light lamp. This holy temple is the symbol of the religious, social, and cultural heritage of many. The temple has a great importance in the art of architecture and is trying to prepare for this important opportunity.
The temple of Ram has reached its final stage and is preparing for the invitation of devotees to the place. In the history of the country, the Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been appointed as the head of the administration.
