Ajodhya, an ancient city of Oudh, 77 m. E. of Lucknow, once, on religious grounds, one of the largest and most magnificent cities of India, now in ruins; the modern town is an insignificant place, but has an annual fair, attended by often 600,000 pilgrims.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Ajmere` * Ak`aba