On a tumultuous night, the invaders armed with the deadliest of weaponsattacked with the only aim: ‘Destruction of Ayodhya’. They plundered,looted, destroyed art treasures, libraries, ancient manuscripts including theoriginal version of "Ramayana", religious scriptures, devastated palaces,massacred as many citizens as they could, drove away others, captured severaltens of thousands as slaves, demolished temples, mutilated venerated idols fromwithin leaving them headless or limbless, carried away or melted other goldenstatues and idols. And with a final war whoop, they set fire to the city ofAyodhya and went back gloating in their victory upon destruction.