"I will ask to eat (= beg), and will sleep in the mosque."
— Ayodhya

January 1, 1970

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Tulsidas (while living in Ayodhya) in: Kavitāvalī, composed sometime between 1608 and 1614 AD during the reign of Jahāngīr (Narayan, 2021). Narayan, Indradev. (1996). Kavitavali by Tulasidas, Gita Press. quoted in The Ayodhyā Twist: A Hypothesis Modifying the New Consensus about its History Koenraad Elst. "To sleep in a mosque was a common thing for travelling Muslims, but the entry of non-Muslims was prohibited. As per a common interpretation, also upheld in 2003 by Swami Jagadguru Ramabhadraca