variance with Habib's: the latter saw no mosque underneath, while Quraishi's employee Bhan did. Noted lawyer Rajeev Dhawan said the Ramjanmabhoomi-Babri Masjid case had taken a wrong turn and the ASI report had no historical or moral significance and the conclusions were based on political considerations. However, Mr. Dhawan said, "The legal case did not relate to the question of whether a temple existed on the site or not". Buddhist claims The Buddhists have also claimed the Ayodhya site. According to Udit Raj's Buddha Education Foundation, the structure excavated by ASI in 2003 was a Buddhist stupa destroyed during and after the Muslim invasion of India. Besides the 2003 ASI report, Raj has also based his claim on the 1870 report of the British archaeologist Patrick Carnegie. According to Carnegie, the Kasauti pillars at the Ayodhya site strongly resemble the ones at Buddhist viharas in Sarnath and Varanasi. Court verdict after analysis of the 2003 ASI report In October 2010, after sifting through all the evidence placed before it, the Allahabad High Court, in an order that ran into over 8,000 pages, said that the portion below the central dome under which the idols of Lord Ram and other Gods are placed in a makeshift temple, belongs to Hindus. All three judges agreed that the portion under the central dome should be allotted to Hindus. The 2019 Supreme Court verdict on Ayodhya dispute states that the entire disputed land of area of 2.77 acres be handed over to a trust to build a Hindu temple. It also ordered the government to give an alternative 5 acre land to the Sunni Waqf Board. See also Ayodhya Babri Masjid Ram Janmabhoomi Ramayana Notes References Sources Printed sources Thakur Prasad Verma, S.P. Gupta, (2001), Ayodhya ka itihasa evam puratattva- Rgveda kala se aba taka. Delhi: D.K. Printworld (in Hindi) Web-sources External links Ayodhya the spiritual abode. Complete details of Ayodhya, proofs and documents. Hindu Temple lays beneath – dailypioneer.com – August 26, 2003 The "Ram temple" drama – Frontline Ayodhya History Times of India news on ASI excavations Times of India Layers of truth From The Week – shows artist's impression of ASI underlying temple – archived here Ayodhya on YouTube Ayodhya and the Research on the Temple of Lord Rama Proof of temple found at Ayodhya: ASI report Ayodhya History of Uttar Pradesh Archaeological sites in Uttar Pradesh Ayodhya dispute