Ayodhya Shakti Peetha

The listed Ayodhya entry combines Mata Annapurna worship in the Ramkot or Ram Janmabhoomi sacred area with Shri Dharma Hari as the associated Bhairava seat. Both belong to Ayodhya’s broad pilgrimage landscape, which contains temples connected with Rama, Sita, Shiva and numerous forms of the Goddess. However, public documentation does not securely establish a single ancient Shakti Peetha temple corresponding exactly to the combined modern listing, so the identification must be described cautiously.

The Peetha is recorded as Ayodhya, with Ayodhye and Saketa as alternate names. According to the tradition used by this database, Sati’s necklace or neck ornament, kantha-hara, fell here. The Goddess is Annapurna and the associated Bhairava is Harihara, also named Dharma-Hari. The precise historical location and the relationship between the Annapurna and Dharma Hari sites are not uniform across available accounts. The entry should preserve the textual pairing without implying that one verified monument contains every element of the tradition.

Navratri is the main Goddess festival relevant to the entry. Ayodhya’s wider pilgrimage circuit receives especially large attendance around Ram Navami, although that celebration centres on the birth of Rama rather than specifically on Annapurna worship. This site is best presented as a regional Peetha mapping embedded within Ayodhya’s much larger sacred geography. Any future architectural, historical or ritual claims should be added only when supported by temple management or authoritative local documentation.