The Geographical Dictionary of Ancient and Mediaeval India c5.s1.130

c5.s1.130

Ayodhana--Pâk-Pattana, five miles west of the Ravi and eight miles from Mamoke Ghat in the Montgomery district of the Punjab (Rennell's Memoir of a Map of Hindoostan (1785), p. 62; Thornton's Gazetteer of the Countries adjacent to India, JASB., vi, 190). It was formerly a renowned city referred to by the historians of Alexander the Great. The town is built on a hillock 40 or 50 feet above the surrounding plain. Its old walls and bastions are now crumbling into ruins. It is celebrated for the tomb of the Mahomedan Saint Farid-ud-din Shaheb Shakar Ganj.