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'''Saketa''' in [[Social:Sanskrit|Sanskrit]], or '''Saket''' in Hindi, means [[Unsolved:Heaven|Heaven]], thus a place where [[Religion:God|God]] resides. ''Saket'' can be alternatively used for [[Unsolved:Heaven|Heaven]] or ''[[Unsolved:Vaikuntha|Vaikuntha]]'' in [[Religion:Hindu mythology|Hindu mythology]], where liberated souls dwell.<ref name="Tulasīdāsa1989">{{cite book|author=Tulasīdāsa|title=Gosvāmī Tulasīdāsakr̥ta Śrīrāmacaritamānasa|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BiYt00x5tcQC&pg=PA892|accessdate=25 July 2013|year=1989|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass |isbn=978-81-208-0443-2|pages=892–}}</ref>  ''Saketa'' is also an alternative name for the ancient city of [[Place:Ayodhya|Ayodhya]],<ref>
{{cite book |last=Cunningham |first=Alexander |title=The Ancient Geography of India, I. The Buddhist Period, including the Campaigns of Alexander, and the Travels of Hwen-Thsang |publisher=Trubner and Company |year=1871 |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=yH9Xef_vm1EC&pg=PA405 |pp=405–406}}
</ref><ref name="BajpaiJamindar2000">{{cite book|author1=K. D. Bajpai|author2=Rasesh Jamindar|author3=P. K. Trivedi (Archaeologist.)|author4=Ramanlal Nagarji Mehta|title=Gleanings of Indian archaeology, history, and culture: Prof. Dr. R.N. Mehta commemoration volume|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JQRuAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=25 July 2013|year=2000|publisher=Publication Scheme}}</ref> an important Hindu religious place, the capital of Kosala and the birthplace of Lord [[Biology:Rama|Rama]], the hero of epic ''[[Biology:Ramayana|Ramayana]]''. Also ''Ajanavana'', an ancient forest (deer park) near Saket (Ayodhya) was where Gautam Buddha once stayed and preached.<ref name="Garg1992">{{cite book|author=Gaṅgā Rām Garg|title=Encyclopaedia of the Hindu World: Ak-Aq|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WjDcd0cTFxQC&pg=PA491|accessdate=25 July 2013|year=1992|publisher=Concept Publishing Company|isbn=978-81-7022-375-7|pages=491–}}</ref>

==In literature==
''Saket'' (1932), a famous [[Social:Hindi|Hindi]] epic poem by Maithili Sharan Gupt, a modern-version of ''[[Religion:Ramcharitmanas|Ramcharitmanas]]'', which described an ideal Hindu society and Rama as an ideal man.<ref name="Satyendra2000">{{cite book|author=Kuśa Satyendra|title=Dictionary Of Hindu Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UcAwrV60cpAC&pg=PA71|accessdate=25 July 2013|year=2000|publisher=Sarup & Sons|isbn=978-81-7625-159-4|pages=71–}}</ref><ref name="Pollet1995">{{cite book|author=Gilbert Pollet|title=Indian Epic Values: Rāmāyaṇa and Its Impact : Proceedings of the 8th International Rāmāyaṇa Conference, Leuven, 6-8 July 1991|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EVnK3q48dL0C&pg=PA198|accessdate=25 July 2013|year=1995|publisher=Peeters Publishers|isbn=978-90-6831-701-5|pages=198–}}</ref> It is an account of the ''[[Biology:Ramayana|Ramayana]]'' through the eyes of Urmila, daughter of King Janaka of Mithila and the younger sister of [[Religion:Sita|Sita]], who later became wife of Lakshmana.

==In Buddhism==
In [[Religion:Buddhism|Buddhism]], the place is thought to be where the sons of Okkaka founded a city.

==See also==
* Swarga
* Ikshvaku

== References ==
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{{HinduMythology}}

[[Category:Sanskrit words and phrases]]

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