| Sāketa (Sanskrit: साकेत, romanized: Sāketa) is a Sanskrit appellation of the city of Ayodhya. Saket can be alternatively used for the abode of 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 Ramacharitamanasa the city bears name of Ayodhya Kingdom, not Sāketa. |
