"The Indian History and Culture Society arranged a three-day (10th–13th October 1992) all-India workshop and seminar on ‗Archaeology and History of Ayodhya‘, … [which] was attended by 40 delegates … [The scholars] added at least two more and most vital pieces of archaeological evidence — one, epigraphical and second, architectural. The former ... is the letter ‗ si’ found engraved on the top portion of the black stone pillar fixed on the outer left side of the main entrance to the central domed-room. Palaeographically, it is in the Nagari script of 11th-12th century AD. In Sanskrit it stands for Shrī, the Goddess Lakshmi. ... A year later, … a similar black stone-pillar inscribed with the same letter ( si) in the same location of the pillar, the capital, was found re-erected in a small triangular park [nearby]... The architectural evidence came to light in the form of a fragmentary wall over which ran the outer boundary wall of the disputed structure. It means that the Muslims used a part of the temple wall to build the boundary wall of the mosque."
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(Gupta 1995: 116–17) Gupta, S.P. 1995. ―If Only the Court Had Examined the Evidence‖. In Dasgupta, Swapan, et al., The Ayodhyā Reference, Supreme Court Judgement and Commentaries, Voice of India, Delhi, pp. 112ff
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