Thiru Ayodhi (Uttar Pradesh) Sri Ramar Temple Ayodhya
Now, being the Pran Pratishtha ceremony for the idol of Ram Lalla, representing the childhood form of Lord Ram, took place in the presence of the PM. India witnessed the grand consecration ceremony of the Ram temple in Ayodhya today i.e. on 22 January. People are commemorating the “historic” day all throughout the world. But the Ayodhya dispute has been a contentious matter for many years, entangled in numerous court actions by Muslim and Hindu religious groups.
Sri Rama Janma Bhoomi Temple also known as Sri Rama Temple, located in Ayodhya is revered as one of the 108 Divya Desam Temples of Lord Vishnu. It was believed to be discovered by king Vikramaditya. Rama Janma Bhoomi is where Lord Rama was said to have taken birth. There is a small Lord Rama temple here. At this location there used to be the Babri Moseque, which was constructed in the 15th century by the Moghuls, but was built a very rich and great temple.
Tridandi China Jeeyar Swamy among the invitees to Ram Lalla function at Ayodhya
In a symbolic gesture, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath presented a replica of Ayodhya’s newly constructed Ram temple to Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Temple. The presentation took place in Ayodhya as part of the grand celebrations following the consecration ceremony of the Ram Lalla idol. The replica symbolizes the historic and cultural significance of the temple, marking the culmination of a long-standing legal and religious journey. Prime Minister Modi was present at the temple to participate in the auspicious occasion and witness the historic event in Ayodhya.
Long battle for Ram Lalla
1528: A mosque was built on the site by Mughal emperor Babar at the birth place of Lord Ram and where a temple earlier existed.
1530-1605: During the time of Akbar, a platform was constructed in front of the mosques. As per reports, a royal order was passed stating that Hindus shouldn’t be stopped from performing puja at the platform.
1853: First recorded incidents of communal violence at the disputed site take place.
1859: British officials erect a fence to separate the places of worships, allowing the inner court to be used by Muslims and the outer court by Hindus.
1885: Mahant Raghubir Das files a suit seeking permission to build a canopy on Ram chabootra but his plea was rejected a year after by the Faizabad district court.
1949: Idol of Lord Ram surfaced inside mosque. Muslims claimed that it was kept there by the Hindus. Both parties filed civil suits. The government proclaimed the premises a disputed area and locks the gates.
18 January, 1950: First title suit is filed by Gopal Singh Visharad asking for the right to worship the idols installed at ‘Asthan Janmabhoomi´. The court restrained the removal of idols and allowed the worship to continue.
24 April, 1950: The State of Uttar Pradesh appealed against the injunction order.
1950: Ramchandra Paramhans filed another suit, but withdraws later.
1959: Nirmohi Akhara entered the fray and files the third suit, seeking possession of the site, doing away with the court-appointed receiver. It claimed itself to be the custodian of the spot at which Ram was supposedly born.
18 December 1961: UP Sunni Central Board of Waqf moved in to claim possession of the mosque and adjoining land.
1983: The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) started nationwide movement for construction of temple at the disputed site in Ayodhya.
1 February 1986: On a plea of Hari Shanker Dubey, a district judge directed Masjid gates to be unlocked to allow ‘darshan’. Muslims set up Babri Masjid Action Committee.
1989: A fresh suit was filed by former VHP vice-president Deoki Nandan Agarwala in the name of Lord Ram for declaration of the title and possession in its favour at the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court.
23 October, 1989: All the four suits pending before a Faizabad court transferred to a special bench of the HC.
November 1989: VHP carries out Shilanyas ceremony in Ayodhya and the first stone of the planned Ram temple is put in place.
December 1989: VP Singh becomes Prime Minister of the country and Janata Dal-led National Front government comes to power.
1990: VHP volunteers partially damage the mosque. Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar tries to resolve the dispute through negotiations, which fail the next year.
September 1990: BJP leader LK Advani starts yatra from Somnath in Gujarat to Ayodhya. Advani gets arrested in Bihar during the yatra.
November 1990: Karsevaks under VHP leaders clash with Uttar Pradesh police in Ayodhya, police uses force to control the crowd. Scores of karsevaks are killed.
10 November 1990: Chandra Shekhar became the Prime Minister with the help of Congress.
1991: BJP became the biggest opposition party in Lok Sabha after general elections with 120 seats.
June, 1991: BJP came to power in Uttar Pradesh, Kalyan Singh becomes Chief Minister
6 December 1992: This marked the turning point of the entire dispute when Babri mosque was razed to the ground by supporters of the VHP, Shiv Sena and BJP, prompting nationwide communal riots between Hindus and Muslims in which more than 2,000 people died.
May, 1996: BJP became single largest party in Lok Sabha elections, Atal Bihari Vajpayee became PM for 13 days.
March 1998: BJP returned to power with Atal Bihari Vajpayee as PM for second time. The government last 13 months.
October 1999: BJP again comes to power at the Centre with a coalition of National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and completes full term.
2001: Tensions rise on the anniversary of the demolition of the mosque. VHP pledges again to build Hindu temple at the site.
January 2002: Vajpayee had set up an Ayodhya cell in his office and appoints a senior official, Shatrughna Singh, to hold talks with Hindu and Muslim leaders.
February 2002: BJP ruled out committing itself to the construction of a temple. VHP confirmed deadline of 15 March to begin construction. Hundreds of volunteers converged on the site. Meanwhile, in a supposedly related incident at least 58 people were killed in an attack on a train in Godhra which was carrying Hindu activists returning from Ayodhya.
March 2002: Following the train attack, some 2,000 people, mostly Muslims, die in riots in Gujarat
April 2002: Three Allahabad High Court judges began hearings on determining who owns the religious site.
January 2003: Archaeologists began a Allahabad high court-ordered survey to find out whether a temple to Lord Ram did exist on the site.
August 2003: The ASI survey said that there was evidence of a temple beneath the mosque, but Muslims disputed the findings. Vajpayee said at the funeral of Hindu activist Ramchandra Das Paramhans that he would fulfil the dying man’s wishes and build a temple at Ayodhya. However, he hoped the courts and negotiations will solve the issue.
September 2003: A court ruled that seven Hindu leaders should stand trial for inciting the destruction of the Babri Mosque, but no charges were brought against Advani, then deputy prime minister, who was also at the site in 1992.
31 August, 2003: All India Muslim Personal Law Board announced that it would challenge the ASI report.
November 2004: UP ruled that an earlier order which exonerated Advani for his role in the destruction of the mosque should be reviewed.
July 2005: Suspected Islamic militants attacked the disputed site, using a jeep laden with explosives to blow a hole in the wall of the complex. Security forces killed five people they said were militants, and a sixth who was not immediately identified.
June 2009: The Liberhan commission investigating events leading up to the mosque’s demolition submitted its report – 17 years after it began its inquiry. Its contents are not made public.
July 2010: Bench reserved its judgement and asked all parties to solve the issue amicably. But no one is keen.
8 September 2010: The High Court announced the verdict would be delivered on 24 September.
14 September, 2010: A writ was filed to defer the judgement but was subsequently rejected by the high court.
28 September, 2010: Supreme Court rejected petition for deferment and gives the go-ahead to the Allahabad high court to deliver the judgement on the Ayodhya title issue. The high court choose 30 September as verdict day.
30 September, 2010: Allahabad High Court gave verdict. A three-judge bench of the Allahabad high court partitions 2.77 acres 2:1 between Hindu and Muslim groups.
9 May, 2011: SC stayed the verdict of the Allahabad High Court order splitting the disputed site in three parts and says that status quo will remain.
June 2015: VHP launched a campaign in Rajasthan to gather Shilas. After more than ten years, two truckloads of etched stones arrived in Ayodhya. The state’s SP government declared the Shilas would not be allowed admission into Ayodhya.
21 March, 2017: Since the Ayodhya matter was so delicate, the SC had recommended that it be settled out of court.
8 February 2018: As per reports, SC had ordered the parties to prepare their paperwork and declared that no more parties would be permitted to enter the case. It made it clear that it would treat the situation like a land dispute.
14 March 2018: SC cancels 32 intervention petitions, leaving only those parties who were part of litigation at the HC.
8 March 2019: SC constituted a mediation panel with FM Kalifulla as the chairman and comprising spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and senior advocate Sriram Panchu, to mediate in the land title dispute.
2 August, 2019: SC announced that on basis of the report submitted by the Chairman of the committee, the mediation failed. The court ordered day-to-day hearing of the case from 6 August.
6 August, 2019: A five-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, and comprising Justices Sharad Arvind Bopde, Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud, Ashok Bhushan and Abdul Nazeer began day-to-day hearing of the case.
9 November, 2019: The almost 70-year long dispute came to an end. The five-judge bench ordered setting up of a trust that paved the way for construction of a temple at Ayodhya. It also ordered allotting 5 acres to Muslims in Ayodhya for building a mosque.
5 August 2020: Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone for a Ram temple in Ayodhya, marking a historic accomplishment for his party. He had siad that a grand temple would be constructed for ‘Ram Lalla’, the infant Ram, who had been living in a tent for years.
22 January, 2024: The new Ram Lalla idol was consecrated at the Ayodhya temple, an event watched by lakhs of people on television at their homes and in temples across the country. PM Modi took part in the ‘pranpratishtha’ rituals in the presence of Uttar Pradesh Governor Anandiben Patel, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat.
(Bhadrachalam Telangana)
Suprabhatam
कौसल्यासुप्रजारामपूर्वासंध्याप्रवर्तते।उत्तिष्ठनरशार्दूलकर्त्तव्यंदैवमाह्निकम्॥
kausalyāsuprajārāmapūrvāsandhyāpravartate।uttiṣṭhanaraśārdūlakarttavyaṃdaivamāhnikam॥
This is considered to be the first poem of the entire Universe, AadiKaavya, the first most Sankrit Poetry, Ramayana. And this is first waking up of the Hero of Ramayana, Sri Ram. It means: O Rāma, the noble son of Kausalyā! The Sandhyā of the East commences. O! best of men (Purushottama)! Wake up, the divine daily rituals have to be performed. Written by Vaalmeeki, the Maharsh Rishi during ancient times, as epitome of personal noble personality. Another Maharsh Rishi Vishvaamitra is the Achaarya (Teacher) of Sri Ram, scripted the in his name, wakened Him.
In the first Sri Venkateshwara Suprabhatam (Good Morning, Sir. Please Awake). This Suprabhatam is full of many praises to Sri Ram, Lord Narayan also called Sri Venkateshwara. This started with the Morning Song of Ramayana which will sing before Sri Venkateswara in Tirumala of Tirupathi in Andhra Pradesh, India. (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/awaken, The Past Tense Forms of Awake and Awaken. Awake and awaken are two distinct verbs that mean the same thing. In other words, they’re synonyms)
The Veṅkaṭeśasuprabhātam was composed around 1430 A.D. by Prativādibhayaṅkara ŚrīAnantācārya (also known as Annangaracharyar, and P B Annan). The poet was a disciple of Swami ManavalaMamuni, who composed Sri Ranganatha Suprabhatam. This means there are two Morning Songs for both Sri Rangam (Tirurangam) and Sri Venkateswara (Tirumala). The whole world become famous popular with Suprabhatam by Ms MS Subbu Lakshmi, that sold lakhs and thousands of cassettes (audio tape), LP (Long Player), or disc CD, which provided Crore of Rupees to temple institution. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB3O9Y__GWw)
Bhadrachalam – Golconda Fort
Devotee of Ram, which means in Telugu and Sanskrit a person who is servant of Ram, Ramadasu. He was jailed in Golkonda fort in Hyderabad because he built a temple at the money belonging to Government in Golkonda Fort in the Hyderabad. He suffered 12 years of imprisonment for alleged appropriation of Sultans’ exchequer.
KancharlaGopanna(c. 1620 – 1688), popularly known as Bhakta Ramadasu or Bhadrachalam. He was a 17th-century devotee of the Hindu god Sri Rama, a saint-poet and a composer of Carnatic music. He was born in the village of Nelakondapalli in Khammam district of Telangana in India, and orphaned as a teenager. He spent his later years in Bhadrachalam and 12 years in solitary confinement at the Golconda prison during the Qutb Shahi-rule.
Soon after the reconstruction, he was dismissed from his job. Ramadas implores Rama through many emotional songs that were popularized from the stanzas of ‘DasaradhiSathakam ‘ and ‘Keertanas’ of Bhakta Ramadasa. The songs end in a state of total and unconditional surrender to the will of the Almighty. After twelve years, Sultan Tana Shah saw Rama in his dream and found Rama mudras (golden coins) beside him. Ramoji&Lakshmoji (which is believed to have Rama and Lakshman appear and paid Sultan Tana Shah, six lakh gold coins imprinted with Lord Rama’s own seal, as compensation for the spent six lakhs of silver coins for the temple construction.
Thereafter he released Ramadasu and established a tradition to send Pearls to the Bhadrachalam temple on every Rama Navami festival and this tradition was continued by the next rulers like Nizams of Hyderabad. They even took the written receipt for the money. Later Ramadasu was released from the jail. There is historical evidence to show that Last Sultan of Quli Qutb Shah dynasty, Tana Shah defended the fort for eight months, but Aurangzeb succeeded in capturing Golconda at the end in September 1687. Tana Shan, the same Sultan, was taken as a prisoner, in the way Ramadasu, was imprisoned in the Daulatabad Fort (near Aurangabad), where he would die after twelve years of captivity. This shows that while Ramadasu survived 12-year incarceration, while the Sultan, only after 12 years of punishment in Daulatabad Fort he died in the cell itself.
(Popular Telugu Keerthan by Ramachandra Ramadasu can listen to songs of BhadrachalaRamadasu Songs Download – Free Online Songs @JioSaavn) and Songs M Balamurali Krishna || RamadasuKeerthanalu/www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ1bpZ41CXw The Ramadasu Songs were picturised by, a very popular Telugu Movie. Sri Ramadasu Telugu Full Movie || Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Akkineni Nagarjuna (youtube.comwatch?v=_354QlFAZgA)
