How Ayodhya is connected to faraway lands Korea, Thailand and Indonesia |

Ayodhya is identified for being one of many holy cities in India and the birthplace of Shri Ram. Its identify is derived from the Sanskrit words- “A” which is a unfavourable prefix, and “yudh” which suggests to combat. Thus the phrase Ayodhya signifies that which is invinclible or an inconquerable metropolis, as per the Atharvaveda. While the holy metropolis has intrigued folks for years, with the latest consecration of the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya, it is a lot within the information but once more.While Ayodhya is much-known because the birthplace of Vishnu‘s seventh avatar Shri Ram within the Treta Yug, do you know that the traditional metropolis additionally has connections to faraway lands of Korea, Thailand and Indonesia?
Here’s we share an attention-grabbing excerpt from the e book ‘Ayodhya: A Walk Through the Living Heritage’ by Vipul Varshneya, revealed with permission from Kiva Publication, which sheds mild on this truth. In this excerpt, creator, architect urbanist and cultural heritage evangelist Vipul Varshneya write about this lesser-known truth in additional element. Read on to know extra:

‘Ayodhya: A Walk Through the Living Heritage’ by Vipul Varshneya
A reference to faraway lands
Korea
Royalty roots in Ayodhya
Korea and Indian temple city Ayodhya has two millennia-old ties which had been found in final decade.South Koreans found {that a} Princess or Queen of Ayodhya was married to Korean King Suro within the first century CE. Suro was the King of Kimhay kingdom or the current Korea. The Princess was married to the Korean King on the age of 16. The Koreans imagine that the Princess was the mom of the descendants who unified numerous Korean kingdoms within the seventh century CE.
Since the primary century CE, her descendants prospered and grew to become the biggest clan in Korea, often known as the Karak, whose members had been extremely distinguished folks. She is considered essentially the most blessed queen of Korea within the significance of the nice temple metropolis of Ayodhya the place Lord Rama was born.
It is written in Eleventh-century Korean chronicle the Samguk Yusa, that the spouse of King Suro of the traditional Korean kingdom of Geumgwan Gaya was a princess who traveled by boat from a faraway land known as Ayuta to Korea in 48 AD.
Heo Hwang (later named as Suro) is a legendary queen that talked about in Samguk Yusa. She was the primary queen of Geumgwan Gaya, and is thought-about the primary queen of Gaya Kingdom.Heo and Suro had 12 youngsters, the eldest son was Kŏdǔng. She requested Suro to let two of the youngsters bear her maiden surname. Legendary genealogical information hint the origins of a number of Heo clans to these two youngsters: Kimhae (or Gimhae), Hayang, Taein, Hansan and Yangcheon.
The Gimhae Kims hint their origin to the opposite eight sons. The Korean delegates come to Ayodhyā yearly, together with the Royal household of Ayodhyā and performing the variety of rituals on the Queen Huh memorial place.The tomb believed to be that of Heo and Suro is situated in Gimhae, South Korea. A pagoda historically held to have been introduced to Korea on her ship is situated close to her grave. The Samguk Yusa reviews that the pagoda was erected on her ship so as to calm the god of the ocean and enable the ship to cross. The uncommon and tough type of this pagoda, not like some other in Korea, could lend some credence to the account of Ayodhyā story. Overall, greater than six million Koreans hint their lineage to Queen Heo, nonetheless, in Indian historical past, no information are discovered of this legend.

Thailand
Ayodhya not so unfamiliar land
King Ramathibodi who named it after the birthplace of Lord Rama based it in 1350. He envisaged “Ramarajya” for his Kingdom, because the King was “Devaraja” or “God King”, notably Vishnu incarnate. Ayuthaya was an excellent, rich and flourishing island-city situated on the confluence of three rivers, the Chao Phraya, the Pasak, and the Lopburi.
The majestic metropolis was the capital of the flourishing Siamese Buddhist kingdom for 417 years until it was captured and destroyed by the invading Burmese forces in 1767 forcing the inhabitants to abandon town. Fifteen years later Thailand’s General Chao Phraya Chakkri grew to become king and moved the capital to Bangkok, to the japanese financial institution of river Chao Phraya.
The Chakkri rulers adopted the identify Rama (at present, the tenth ruler of that dynasty occupies the throne as King Vajiralongkorn, with the title, King Rama X).
The royal palace has scenes from the epic painted on its partitions. Though Ayutthaya, its 200,000 folks and 4,000 Buddhist temples had been looted and destroyed, it was restored by the Chakkri dynasty, and the resplendent Buddhist temple within the ruins of Ayutthaya is at present a serious vacationer attraction.
Although Thailand is at present predominantly Buddhist, there are traces of Hindu affect, seen largely within the courtroom ceremonials. The Siamese name their coronation by its historical Sanskrit designation, the Rajabhiseka. The tonsure ceremony in Siam is a ceremony of initiation of youths, corresponding to the Hindu Cudakarma Mangala, which is crucial Hindu Samskara. Cremation, an outdated Vedic ceremony, is the one technique of disposal of the stays of deceased royalty in Siam. The Thai nationwide and royal emblem is the Vishnu vahana or Garuda. The Hindu Trinity of Brahma, Shiva and Vishnu are worshipped with unrelenting reverence. Vishnu and his avatar of Rama are clearly essentially the most revered of all.
The partitions of the magnificent Temple subsequent to the Kings Grand Palace have mural scenes from the whole story of Ramayana painted on them. As the unique manuscript containing the Ramayana was burnt in Ayuthaya’s carnage, King Rama I wrote the Thai model of Ramayana known as Ramakien in a poetic format. His son, Rama II, penned a a lot shorter adaptation of it. It is this story that is the primary characteristic in classical Thai dance-drama to this present day.Even at present, the Kings of Thailand bear the Royal title is Rama, and the story of Ramayana is depicted on the Royal Palace and temple partitions of Bangkok. Lava (Lao:Phra Lao, Thai: Phra Lop) and his twin brother Kusha, the 2 sons of Lord Rāma and his spouse Sita, have additionally historic hyperlinks to the Southeast Asian nation as Laos and the Thai metropolis Lopburi had been each named after him.
Indonesia
Stangely not so unusual
Yogkarta, a giant metropolis in Indonesia is named after Ayodhya. It is mentioned in Adipurana that Ayodhya has been well-known due to its prosperity and ability. The metropolis of Yogkarta in Indonesia was additionally named after Ayodhya. The identify Yogyakarta has its roots in Ayodhyakarta, which means Ayodhya, the peaceable metropolis the place the ruler guidelines with the Aristocracy. Some students have one other model of the which means, which has been drawn from Hindu-Javanese mythology. According to them, Yogya means appropriate and karta stands for affluent, which makes the which means of Yogyakarta a metropolis that is match to prosper. In Indonesia, the Ramayana has lived within the hearts of individuals forover 2,000 years. A tri-weekly ballet of Ramayana is nonetheless carried out at Yogyakarta’s Prambanan Temple, which is devoted to the Hindu trinity of Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh. Scenes from the Ramayana are additionally engraved on the partitions of the temple. Ramayana’s components and characters are basic to the cultural consciousness of Indonesia and though the Javanese model of the epic is known as Kakawin Ramayana, its essence is the identical. Once the capital of the Indonesian Republic throughout the Indonesian National Revolution, Yogyakarta has additionally been modelled on the sacred city of Ayodhya and is house to age-old temples, historical tradition and magnificent pure points of interest. A centre of classical Javanese tremendous artwork and tradition, it’s additionally famend as a centre of upper schooling.