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"[According to Balfour, Ayodhya has] ‘three mosques on the sites of three Hindu shrines: the Janmasthan on the site where Rama was born…..’"

— Ram Janmabhoomi

January 1, 1970

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Surgeon General Edward Balfour, Encyclopedia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, 1858, p-56. Quoted from Narain, Harsh (1993). The Ayodhya temple-mosque dispute: Focus on Muslim sources. Delhi: Penman Publishers. He noted that Ayodhyā had ―three mosques on the sites of three Hindu shrines: the Janmasthan on the site where Rama was born; the Swargadwar Mandir, where his remains were buried; the Treta ka Thakur, famed as the scene of one of his great sacrifices. (Balfour 1858: 56, quoted in

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Surgeon General Edward Balfour, Encyclopedia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, 1858, p-56. Quoted from Narain, Harsh (1993). The Ayodhya temple-mosque dispute: Focus on Muslim sources. Delhi: Penman Publishers. He noted that Ayodhyā had ―three mosques on the sites of three Hindu shrines: the Janmasthan on the site where Rama was born; the Swargadwar Mandir, where his remains were buried; the Treta ka Thakur, famed as the scene of one of his great sacrifices. (Balfour 1858: 56, quoted in