The local folklore says Annapoorneshwari Devi came from Kashi with two other Devis' (Kalarivathukkal Bhagavathy Temple and Madayi Kavu) and a boatman in a golden ship, got down at Azhi Theeram which is now known as Ayirum Thengu.
Baragaon, Varanasi, a town in the Varanasi district, Uttar Pradesh, India
Ramananda's ashram in Varanasi became a powerful center of religious influence, from which his ideas spread far and wide among all classes of Indians.
Substantial proportion of trade activities are with well connected towns and cities in Uttar Pradesh such as Varanasi, Ballia and Ghazipur.
Jhi Maca ("Our Child"), published in 1947 from Varanasi, India by Dharmodaya Sabha, is a collection of children's stories that provide an intimate sense of what the culturally vibrant and densely settled Newar society looks like from within.
With the help of the late Parmananda Biswas, who happened to be a Christian gentleman, an idol was brought from Varanasi (Kashi).
The Kiplingesque image of India as a grandiose and irrational land comes naturally to Candler, and when describing locations significant in Kipling’s own fiction, such as Benares (Varanasi), he applies imaginative treatments and tropes such as the heroic, Romantic or Gothic to some degree pre-fabricated for him by his master.
In 1902 Arundale and his aunt moved to Varanasi where he took a position as history teacher at the Central Hindu College (CHC).
In 1972, he left his higher studies MSc in Nuclear Science, Surrey University and a lucrative career to establish and run the Appropriate Technology unit at the Gandhian Institute in Varanasi, India on request of Jayaprakash Narayan, the leading Gandhian in India.
She pleaded Shiva—the Lord of Varanasi—who granted her the boon that no pilgrimage to Varanasi would be deemed complete without her worship.
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Another tale is associated with the temple dedicated to Kauri-bai—an aspect of Matangi—who appeared in low caste area of Varanasi.
In 1947, he slipped out of the country and went to Varanasi to attend a convention of the Nepal Rastriya Congress, a political party of Nepalese freedom fighters.
However, there is a story about Ramananda which claims he escaped death altogether by entering a Samadhi state, a meditative state and remaining alive, where his Charan paduka is still visible at Srimath in Kashi.
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Ramananda spent most of his life in Kashi (Banaras / Varanasi), where, as a mark of respect, people built a memorial that stands there to this day.
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Ramananda for the most part of his life lived in the holy city of Varanasi, and was a pioneer of the Bhakti movement, as well as a social reformer in Northern India.
Another popular story is told of Ramprasad's vision of goddess Annapurna of Varanasi.
Sanmarg is a well known popular Hindi daily published from Varanasi which was later published from Kolkata, Burdwan, Ranchi, and Bhubaneshwar.
These poems became so influential that his popular revolutionary ‘Nazms’ and ‘Naghmas’ (‘Geets’) were sung in the ‘Prabhat-Pheris’ taken out on the streets of cities like Lucknow and Varanasi during the freedom struggle.
He did his schooling from Rishi Valley School India, founded by the philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti.He studied at Loyola College in Madras and at Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi.
Shiva and Sati travel to Kashi, where a community of Brangas inhabit, in order to get more information on the Nagas.
There he was given a traditional tulku education, supplemented by five years of schooling at Sanskrit University in Varanasi, India.
Legend holds that people who die in the city of Kashi attain salvation and emancipation from the cycle of birth and death; so, many pious Hindus in the bygone era would relocate to Kashi as their end drew near.
While stationed in Varanasi in 1945 he sketched the beginning of a concerto for piano, the first of the many concertos to come.
Varanasi | Varanasi Junction railway station | Baragaon, Varanasi |
It has many direct trains connecting with major cities like Delhi, Lucknow, Kanpur, Dehradun, Haridwar, Allahabad, Varanasi, Kolkata, Puri, Bhopal, Mumbai, Bangalore, Jammu and many more.
He grew up with the distinguished art collection of Bharat Kala Bhavan the renowned Indian Art Museum in Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, which was founded by Rai Krishnadasa ji and under the shadow of top Hindi littérateurs, painters, musicians et al., a solid base which he later enriched with his own experience.
Baba Siddharth Gautam Ram is the Peethadheeshwar / Mahant (Abbot), since 1978, of Baba Keenaram Sthal Krim-Kund (regarded as Headquarter and World fame Pilgrim of Aghora,across world, at Varanasi ).
In 1950, he moved to Varanasi with his mentor setting up a music institution named Kala Sangeet Bharati at the Banaras Hindu University.
Most importantly this means that no sari or brocade made outside the six identified districts of Uttar Pradesh, that is Varanasi, Mirzapur, Chandauli, Bhadohi, Jaunpur and Azamgarh districts, can be legally sold under the name of Banaras sari and brocade.
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The sari making is more of a cottage industry for about 12 lakh people associated directly or indirectly with the handloom silk industry of the region around Varanasi encompassing Gorakhpur, Chandauli, Bhadohi, Jaunpur and Azamgarh districts.
Chetaka, called King Chetaka or President Chetaka was the representative of the Licchavi clan who ruled as a Republican President in Vaishali (India) reputed to have organised the Vajjian confederation of republics comprising the 9 Mallakis, 18 Gana Rajas of Kashi/Kosala and 9 Licchavi Republics.
In the year 1847, Rashmoni, prepared to go upon a long pilgrimage to the sacred Hindu city of Kashi to express her devotions to the Divine Mother.
It is connected to Bhopal and Jabalpur of Central India (Madhya Pradesh) by Jabalpur - Howrah Shaktipunj Express (Daily) and Bhopal - Howrah Bhopal Express (Weekly/Monday), Varanasi by the Intercity Express and Patna by the Palamau Express.
The city of Dildarnagar is located in the border of uttar pradesh India, in the eastern part of the state of Uttar Pradesh, along the left is bank of the karamnasa river.Its neighbouring cities are Varanasi, Jaunpur, Buxar in Bihar, Ballia, Mau, Chandauli and Azamgarh.
The name Godaan is tribute to a legendary novel by Premchand, who belonged to Varanasi.
The only other God who shows a twig with a gunja seed on his upturned right hand palm to indicate the divya ksehtra’s superiority over Kashi (Varanasi) is Lord Narasimha, in the Gunja Narasimha Swamy temple locaterd at T.Narsipur in Mysore district in Karnataka on the bank of the Kaveri - Kapila - Spatika Sarovar sangam (confluence).
Six corridors have already been identified for technical studies on setting-up of high-speed rail corridors: Delhi–Chandigarh–Amritsar, Pune-Mumbai-Ahmedabad, Hyderabad-Kazipet-Dornakal-Vijayawada-Chennai, Howrah–Haldia, Chennai-Bangalore-Coimbatore-Ernakulam-Thiruvananthapuram, Delhi-Agra-Lucknow-Varanasi-Patna.
This is one of the oldest temples in Varanasi, located near Bengal Tola Inter College and next to the famous weavers colony of Madanpura.
They are spread across Delhi, Bihar (Patna, Muzaffarpur, Gaya and Bhagalpur), Jharkhand (Ranchi, Jamshedpur and Dhanbad), Uttar Pradesh (Lucknow, Varanasi, Meerut, Agra, Allahabad, Gorakhpur, Bareilly, Moradabad, Aligarh, and Kanpur) and Uttarakhand (Dehradun, Haridwar, Haldwani).
In the 7th century the great Chinese traveller Xuanzang (Huen Tsang) toured India and wrote in Chinese about the prevalence of Shiva worship at that time, describing Shiva temples at Kanoj, Karachi, Malwa, Gandhar (Kandahar), and especially at Varanasi (Benares) where he saw twenty large temples dedicated to Shiva.
From Rajmahal, construction progressed rapidly, moving westward along the banks of the Ganges, reaching Bhagalpur in 1861, Munger in February 1862, and opposite Varanasi (across the Ganges) in December 1862 and then on to Naini on the bank of the Yamuna.
A sufi saint Shah Qualander to whom this village was dedicated rescued Dara's army from Cholera epidemic during returning from one of his expedition.The culture of this village is mix.The village is situated in between Jaunpur-Azamgarh and Varanasi-Azamgarh main road.Both main road is two km away from this village.
After his death in 1979 his son Dr. Gopal Shankar Misra, internationally renowned Vichitra Veena artiste and Professor, Faculty of Music and Fine Arts, B.H.U., Varanasi was working on the remaining volumes, aided by hand-written notes by Lalmani Misra when on 13 August 1999 he succumbed to heart-attack at a five day function organised in memory of his father at Bhopal.
Between 1965 and 1970 he was the Principal of Dalhousie Tibetan School and between 1971 and 1988 he was the Principal of Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies (CIHTS) at Varanasi (Benares), and from 1988 to 2001 he was the Director.
Malviya Bridge, inaugurated in 1887 (originally called The Dufferin Bridge) is a double decker bridge over the Ganges at Varanasi.
The Malviya Bridge (Lord Duffrin Bridge Double Deck Rail cum Road, built in 1888), in Kashi (Varanasi) is situated between Mughalsarai and Varanasi on the river Ganges.
In 1996, Mukhtar was elected from Mau, and the gang, with its arsenal of AK-47 and other weapons, became a household name in the districts of Mau, Ghazipur, Varanasi and Jaunpur.
He held a Ph.D. in Physics from Banaras Hindu University (BHU) in Varanasi, India and a second doctorate in Theoretical Plasma Physics from Umeå University (UmU) in Sweden.
It is believed that the Panchacharyas arose out of five great Sthavaralingas located in Balehonnur in Karnataka, Ujjini in Karnataka, Kedar in Uttarakhand, Srisailam in Andhra Pradesh, and Kashi or Banaras in Uttar Pradesh under different names in different Yugas.
Paul Brunton, A message from Arunachala, Pilgrims Publishing, Varanasi, ISBN 978-81-7769-785-8
According to a 2008 UNESCO report, the most representative Ramlilas are those of Ayodhya, Ramnagar and Varanasi, Vrindavan, Almora, Satna and Madhubani.
Prof. Ram Chandra Shukla, Professor and Head of the department, of Painting at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, at that time, was the initiator and the main source of inspiration for this movement.
A commonly accepted list of Shakti peethas and their famous temple complexes includes: Jwalaji (Himachal), Tara Tarini (Berhampur, Orissa), Katyayani (Chattarpur, Delhi), Kamakhya (Assam), Kali at Kalighat (Kolkata, West Bengal), Naina Devi (Himachal), Guhyeshwari Temple Devi (Kathmandu, Nepal), Vishalakshi Temple (Varanasi).
Chandi Azamgarh:Tehsil-Lalganj Villages-Chakidih, Ramgarh, Acchiya and Mirawa Kanpur: Mathura: Hathakauli, Kiloni, Angai, Kasimpur, Gharotha Varanasi: Babhanpura & Ramchandipur (DHAB), Chandi Sarai Sambhal Tehsil: Belthara Road, Bodhi Sah is the first man in Chandi From Gahamar
When the washerman expressed his wish to visit (Kashi) Varanasi on a pilgrimage, god told him that the construction of a temple for him, had earned the washerman an additional punya (Merit) of about a coral beed vine seed (Abrus precatorius)) than that which accrues by visiting Kashi.
It is partly under the administrative control of Lucknow Division of the Northern Railway Zone, and partly under the administrative control of Varanasi Division of the North Eastern Railway Zone of the Indian Railways.
Subsequently, with technology transfer from GM EMD, it produces advanced diesel locomtives with high efficiency and low maintenance costs.
This was a natural choice, due to the rail link between Gaya and Varanasi, both on the Grand Chord section of the Indian Railways.
Vishwanath, the presiding Hindu deity of Varanasi, India, representing Shiva.