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Subject: AURANGABAD
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jeet786 28.01.12 - 06:47am
Early history of Aurangabad is shrouded in mystery and darkness. One of the reasons probably being that there was no habitation, neither rural nor urban as it was swathed and wrapped by the formidable, fathomless forests called Dandakaranya. Impenetrable and dense, permeated by enzied, tumultuous wild beasts, * +

jeet786 28.01.12 - 06:48am
Dandakaranya was rarely acquainted by homo-sapiens. But the legendary rishi munis dared to stay in such wild surroundings. Demons and Monsters are also said to have dwelled in these forests. * +

jeet786 28.01.12 - 06:49am
The early traditions of Aurangabad are closely related with the great epic poem of Ramayan. In the Ramayan when Sugriva the monkey king sends his followers to the different quartersin search of Rama's wife Sita and * +

jeet786 28.01.12 - 06:49am
Ravana her ravisher, he directs them to go among other southern countriesto Vidarbhas, Richikas and Mahishakasand also to Dandakaranya and the river Godavari. This shows barring Vidarbha other places like Paithan or it's surroundings were not inhabited * +

jeet786 28.01.12 - 06:50am
but formed a part of the forest of Dandaka. River Godavari flows very near Aurangabad which means in all probability, Rama and Sita wandered even through Paithan, aurangabad and other neighbouring localities. In the Ramayana, Rama is represented to have lived for a long time in Dandakaranya, at a place called * +

jeet786 28.01.12 - 06:50am
Dandakaranya, at a place called Panchavati situated on the banks of the Godavari about two yojanas from the hermitage of Agastya. In the introduction to Hemadri's Vratakhanda, a work written more than six hundered years ago, Devagiri,the modern Daulatabad, is spoken of * +

jeet786 28.01.12 - 06:51am
as situated in a district on the confines of Dandakaranya which definitely means Aurangabad must have been a part of this hisstorical forests though near it's borders. Nashik claims to be the Panchavati where Rama lived. * +

loving_7 28.01.12 - 07:52am
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