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The old city is located on the north shores of the Ganges, bounded by Varuna and Assi. [32] In the Mahabharata and in ancient India, the city is referred to as Kāśī from the Sanskrit verbal root kaś-"to shine", making Varanasi known as "City of Light", [33] [15] the "luminous city as an eminent seat of learning". [34]
A 2014 of scholarly essays, Banâras Revisited: Scholarly Pilgrimages to the City of Light, took its name from the Eck book. [7] A reviewer for that book noted that "Eck’s study was a point of entry" for a generation of scholars on India and that many of the essays in this new book cite the Eck book in their bibliographies.
Varanasi district is a district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, with the holy city of Varanasi as the district headquarters. It is also the headquarters of the Varanasi division which contains 4 districts (including Varanasi).
Varanasi, also known as Benares, [1] Banaras (Banāras), or Kashi (Kāśī), is the holiest of the seven sacred cities in Hinduism and Jainism, and played an important role in the development of Buddhism. It is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. Varanasi is also known as the favourite city of the Hindu deity Shiva.
The city attracts millions of domestic and international tourists. [1] The temples across the city attract pilgrims. The ghats and the Buddhist site Sarnath attract tourists from abroad. Varanasi is one of the oldest cities in the world, which makes it rich with cultural heritage. [2] The city is home to ghats, temples, and museums. [3]
It is derived from Sanskrit, "ghaṭṭa" (Sanskrit: गट्टः).It means an embankment or a landing place. [2]Ghat, a term used in the Indian subcontinent, depending on the context could either refer to a range of stepped-hill such as Eastern Ghats and Western Ghats; or the series of steps leading down to a body of water or wharf, such bathing or cremation place along the banks of a ...
What was on the site prior to the temple is debated by scholars [10] and has been extensively contested by the local Hindu and Muslim populations. [11] [12] Desai said these multiple histories of the original temple and tensions arising out of the location of Gyanvapi fundamentally shaped the sacred topography of the city.
The concept for Bharat Kala Bhavan came to fruition with establishment of Bharatiya Lalit Kala Parishad on 1 January 1920 in a wing in Godowlia, Varanasi.Between 1920 and 1962, the museum's collection was shifted to several locations within Varanasi before Jawaharlal Nehru laid foundation of the existing museum building in 1950 and the museum was, then shifted to its existing location in the ...