Holy town in Uttar Pradesh province in North India, also referred to as Saket. The birthplace of Sri Rama and revered as a place of pilgrimage for thousands of years by the Hindus.

The modern Oudh. The capital of Ikshwaku, the founder of the solar race, and afterwards the capital of Rama. It is one of the seven sacred cities. ... more

Ayodhya is an opera by Somtow Sucharitkul. It premiered on November 16, 2006 at the Thailand Cultural Center in Bangkok, in a production directed by Dutch director Hans Nieuwenhuis and featuring Michael Chance as Ganesha, Nancy Yuen as Sita, Charles Hens as Rama, and John Ames as Ravan. The libretto is a distillation of the entire Ramayana epic into a single evening.