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The idol deified in the temple is of black colour and 75 centimetres (30 inches) in height. It is located in Bhelapur about 5 kilometres (3.1 miles) from the centre of Varanasi city and 3 kilometres (1.9 miles) from the Benares Hindu University. It belongs to the Digambar sect of Jainism and is a holy tirtha or pilgrimage centre for Jains.
Raja Chait Singh of Benares State The Maharaja's Fort and palace in Ramnagar Maharaja of Benares with his courtiers in the 1870s. Banaras State, earlier Benares Estate, [1] was an estate, or hereditary jagir, comprising the family domains of the Maharaja of Benares—under the Nawabs of Oudh, East India Company rule, and the British Raj—that from 1911 to 1948 was recognized as a princely state.
Benares Shoals, or Benares Shoal, is a submerged coral reef, an isolated patch located at , just 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) west-northwest of Île Pierre, the closest island of Peros Banhos atoll in the northern Chagos Archipelago. It measures about 3 kilometres (2 mi) east–west, with a width of about 700 metres (2,300 ft) and an area of 2 square ...
This temple is located in Jeevandeep Public School campus, Baralalpur, Varanasi, India. [17] There are around 150 million Bhojpuriyas in the world and they give Bhojpuri language the same status as their mother. It is one of the temples in the world for worshipping a language as a god or goddess. [18]
Ramnagar is a city, just adjacent to Varanasi city and a municipal board in Varanasi district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.Ramnagar has a fort known as Ramnagar Fort which is still the residence of King of Varanasi (Benares).
Banaras Hindu University's main campus is located on the southern edge of Varanasi, near the banks of the river Ganges. Development of the main campus, spread over 1,370 acres (5.5 km 2 ), [ 47 ] [ 48 ] started in 1916 on land donated by the then Kashi Naresh Prabhu Narayan Singh .
The Narayan dynasty was the ruling family of Benares.Ancestors of Narayan Dynasty were rulers of Kashi Mahajanpada but later the Dynasty had lost their kingdom. Raja Mansaram Singh of Narayan Dynasty had again acquired the kingdom of his ancestors.
It is located near the Ganges on its eastern bank, opposite to the Tulsi Ghat. The sandstone structure was built in 1750 by Kashi Naresh Maharaja Balwant Singh. The current king and the resident of the fort is Anant Narayan Singh, who is also known as the Maharaja of Benares even though this royal title has been abolished since 1971. [1] [2]