Saketa

Saketa was an ancient city in northern India, a major centre of the kingdom of Kosala in the time of the Buddha, usually identified with Ayodhya or a site close to it on the Sarayu River. It lay on the trade route linking the Ganges valley with the north-west and was later ruled by the Mauryas, Shungas and Kushans. The grammarian Patanjali records a Yavana (Indo-Greek) siege of Saketa in the 2nd century BCE.