Continuing our #YearOfTemples awareness campaign for the Ram Janmabhoomi case, here is a peek into the evidence that conclusively establishes the presence of a Vaishnava temple underneath the Babri Masjid. 
Even before demolition, it was known that the Babri building had 14 pillars that carried typical Hindu motifs & figures of Hindu Devatās, indicating that like any of the thousands of Mosques built over temple across Bhārat, debris of temples had been used for mosque construction.
On August 1, 2002, a Full Bench of the Allahabad HC decided to seek archaeological evidence to shed light on some fundamental questions that were central to the dispute, one of which was whether there existed a Hindu Temple prior to the construction of the Babri Masjid.
Excavation at the site yielded more than 200 specimens that included sculptured panels and architectural components that must have been a part of the earlier Mandir.
Three inscriptions were found, of which the largest one is engraved on a stone slab & consists of 20 lines, which records that a beautiful temple of Viśhnu-Harī was built in Ayodhya glorifying Lord Viśnu who destroyed Rāvan.
The Allahabad HC therefore rightly held that the Mosque was built over an existing temple and that Hindus have been believing it to be the janma-sthaan since time immemorial. However, it still went ahead and granted one-third possession to the Sunni Waqf board.
The current case in the Supreme Court challenges the above decision of the Allahabad HC and is no longer about proving the existence of a pre-existing temple underneath the mosque, which has been established conclusively.
All pictures in this thread have been extracted from the book, "Rama and Ayodhya" by Prof Meenakshi Jain with the prior permission of the author. *End of Thread*
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