Sāketa (), in
Sanskrit, a place where
God resides. ''Saket'' can be alternatively used for
Heaven
Heaven or the heavens, is a common religious cosmological or transcendent supernatural place where beings such as deities, angels, souls, saints, or venerated ancestors are said to originate, be enthroned, or reside. According to the belie ...
or ''
Vaikuntha'' in
Hindu epics, where liberated souls dwell.
"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 Sāketa.
In literature
''Saket'' (1932), a famous
Hindi epic poem by
Maithili Sharan Gupt, a modern-version of ''
Ramcharitmanas'', which described an ideal
Hindu
Hindus (; ) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism.Jeffery D. Long (2007), A Vision for Hinduism, IB Tauris, , pages 35–37 Historically, the term has also been used as a geographical, cultural, and later religious identifier for ...
society and Rama as an ideal man.
It is an account of the ''
Ramayana'' through the eyes of
Urmila, daughter of King
Janaka of
Mithila and the younger sister of
Sita, who later became wife of
Lakshmana.
In Buddhism
In
Buddhism, the place is thought to be where the sons of Okkaka founded a city.
Ayodhya signifies a great importance in the Buddhist literature. It is referred to as Saketa 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.
See also
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Svarga
Svarga (), also known as Indraloka and Svargaloka, is the celestial abode of the devas in Hinduism. Svarga is one of the seven higher lokas ( esoteric planes) in Hindu cosmology. Svarga is often translated as heaven, though it is regarded to b ...
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Ikshvaku
References
Locations in Hindu mythology
Heaven
Hindu cosmology
Indian masculine given names
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