Birth of Lord
Shri Ram –
In the Treta Yuga, when adharma
was on its peak, The People of this world were suffering heavily, and sages
were tortured and murdered by the evil forces governed by the king of Demons, and
the king of Lanka, Ravana. To free the people from the fear of his misrule, God
Shri Hari Vishnu Incarnated for the 8th time on this mother earth.
He Took Birth as a son of King of Ayodhya (A Beautiful City located at the bank
of Sarayu River) named Dashrath of Icchvaku Dynasty on the Ninth Day of the
beginning of Chaitra Month in the Palace of Raja Dashrath. His name was given
as Ram by the Priest of Ayodhya Kingdom Sage Vashishtha.
The Details of The date When
Lord Ram Was Born is described by few lines in Ramcharitmanas –
...................... चैत्रे नावमिके तिथौ।।
नक्षत्रेऽदितिदैवत्ये
स्वोच्चसंस्थेषु पञ्चसु।
ग्रहेषु
कर्कटे लग्ने वाक्पताविन्दुना सह।।
The above lines mean, on the 9th
tithi (Day) of Chaitra month, in Punarvasu Nakshatra, When 5 Planets were
exalted, and when Moon and Jupiter were located in Capricorn Ascendant, Lord
Shri Ram was born.
With the Passage of time and
the fall of the Kingdom, the palace of Ayodhya was converted into remains. The
Devotees of Lord Shri Ram built his temple in the place of that room of the
castle where he was born. The Ritual of worshiping him continued since then
throughout the Dwapar Yuga and till the beginning of the 12th
Century of Kali Yuga by the followers of Sānatan Dharma in that region.
Invasion of
Muslim Rulers in Indian Subcontinent –
The attack and conquest in
Indian Subcontinent by the Muslim rulers started in the 8th Century
in the Modern Pakistan Region. Mahmud of Ghazni invaded and plundered large
parts of Punjab, Gujarat, beginning from the Indus River, during the 10th
Century.
After the capture of Lahore,
and the end of Ghaznavids, The Ruler of the Ghurid Empire, laid the foundation
of Muslim Rule in India. In 1206 the invasion of Bakhtiyar Khalji in the West
Bengal led to the disappearance of Buddhism in Eastern India. The Ghurid Empire
soon evolved into Delhi Sultanate, ruled by Qutb-Al-Din Aibak. The establishment
of this sultanate led to the spread of Islam in most parts of the Indian
Subcontinent.
In the 14th
Century, The Khalji Dynasty under the rule of Allaudin Khalji Temporarily
extended Muslim rule southwards to Gujarat, Rajasthan, and Deccan, While Tughlaq
Dynasty temporarily extended its territorial control till Tamil Nadu.
When Delhi Sultanate was
spreading in the places near Delhi like in the cities of Agra and Ayodhya,
which are now present in the modern-day Uttar Pradesh of India, The Spread of
Islam was also rising across all those regions. It was not only the Islam which
was spreading, but The Destruction of all the Non-Muslim Humans and Humanity
was also spreading Hand in Hand with the spread of Islam. The invaders
destroyed thousands and Lakhs of Homes and Temples, and worshipping of Idols
and Practices of Sānatan
Dharma Rituals were either restricted or prohibited. Many Temples were looted, destroyed, and were
converted to the ruins, and among all of those, Lord Shri Ram's Temples at his
birthplace was also one of them.
During the 16th
Century, when the Mughal ruler Babur entered in India, He concentrated on
gaining control of Northwestern India, by doing so in 1526 by defeating the
last Lodhi Sultan at the First Battle of Panipat, a town north of Delhi. Babur
then turned to the tasks of persuading his Central Asian followers to stay on
in India and of overcoming other contenders for power, like the Rajputs and the
Afghans. During this period, whenever Babur found temples or even the ruins of
the temples at several places, as per their policies, they used to destruct it,
loot it, and then either they left it as remains or either built a mosque on
it. Naturally, when Babur found the ruins of Lord Shri Ram's Temple, he made a
mosque over there in 1528-29, which is now known as the Babri Masjid.
The building of this mosque
was one of the biggest injustice which these Mughals did with Hindus keeping
apart the Murder of several Hindus, Kidnap and Rape of Hindu girls as well as
women, conversion of Hindus on the point of a weapon and all the others. Hindus
were quite powerless at that time and were unable to take any actions against
these invaders, and the issue persisted in the hearts of Hindus since then.
Why the Issue
Persisted For So Long –
Later with the Fall of Mughal
Empire and Rise of Maratha Empire in the 19th Century, the issue of
Lord Ram’s Temple at his birthplace persisted but got neglected because the
Marathas of Maratha Empire founded by Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj were trying
hard to free this motherland and their citizens from the misrules and torchers
of Muslim Rulers.
The issue of Ram Temple
persisted during this reign of the Maratha Empire, too. When things were
getting stabilized throughout the country in their reign, India faced another
invader from Britain between the early and mid- 19th Century who
were conquerors in the disguise of businessmen. When they started conquering
India with their policies of Divide and Rule and other similar ones, India
faced a lack of unity for the issue to be resolved. When British Rules were in
the position of head of the nation, they neglected every issue raised by
Indians and treated them as slaves, so there were no chances that the issue
will be resolved during their reign.
However, the population of
Christians witnessed growth in India due to the conversion of various Tribal
peoples due to their greed of money offered by Christian missionaries brought
by British Rulers, just to spread their religion throughout the world. With the
Efforts of various Freedom fighters and their followers throughout the country,
the British Empire in India came to an end. The British rulers started leaving
India in the mid-1940s, and finally, India got Independent in 1947.
This Independence brought a
lot of instability in the country, the lack of economy as the aftermath of
British rule, and the majority of the population of the country was poor.
Adding on to these, India got divided into two nations, which rather raised
communal riots. Sorting out all these issues country started getting stable,
with a very slow growth rate of the economy due to several misrules of some
powerful corrupt politicians of that time. So the issue persisted for so long
with a load in the hearts of millions of Hindus throughout the Country.
NOTE: References to all the parts of this article are placed together at the end of part 5.
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