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¹ ‘Gazetteer of Oudh’ (1877), vol. i. p. 7. Sâlâr Mas‘ûd Ghâzî, the nephew of Mahmûd of Ghaznî, passed through Ayodhyâ in 1033, and would hardly have failed to display his iconoclastic zeal. Gen. Cunningham attempts to identify the various mounds at this place with those described as existing in Sâketa by the Buddhist Pilgrims.—‘Ancient Geography of India,’ pp. 401 *et seqq.*; ‘Archæological Reports,’ vol. i. pp. 293 *et seqq.* The truth of the matter, however, is, that neither Fah Hian nor Hiuen Tsiang were ever near the place. The city they visited, and where the Tooth-brush-tree grew, has not been identified.