Hindu religious traditions
Kashiकाशी
Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
A sacred city central to Shaiva worship and many epic and Puranic pilgrimage accounts.
STORY & TRADITION
The world of Kashi.
A sacred city central to Shaiva worship and many epic and Puranic pilgrimage accounts.
Earthly Sacred Locations
Details & context.
- Tradition dependence
- High — compare the identified textual or regional account.
- Ancient / sacred name
- Kashi
- Modern identification
- Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
- Identification confidence
- Strong traditional identification
- Country / region
- Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
- Kingdom / dynasty
- Not established in the cited passage; no additional claim is made here.
- Associated figures
- Shiva; Kashi Vishwanath; Skanda Purana
- Sacred significance & narrative
- A sacred city central to Shaiva worship and many epic and Puranic pilgrimage accounts.
- Events / battles
- See the linked narrative records.
- Historical / archaeological evidence
- This overview does not identify a site-specific excavation report. A living physical place does not prove every event traditionally associated with it.
- Textual geography notes
- Ancient regions, literary geography and modern pilgrimage identifications are distinguished.
- Tradition notes
- Names and accounts can vary by recension, region and commentary. This entry distinguishes attested details from identifications still requiring a passage-level source.
EARTHLY GEOGRAPHY
The living landscape.
Strong traditional identification. The map search locates the present-day place; it does not prove an epic event.
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Connected worlds.
3 connected profiles. Every path leads to an original record.
Characters & Cosmic Entities1
Earthly Sacred Locations1
The Sacred Library1
READ THE SOURCES
Texts & references.
Mahabharata — Ganguli translation
Complete epic, translated by K. M. Ganguli.
Mahabharata · Translations and numbering vary by edition. Separate the primary text from its commentary.Reference overview. Consult the identified text and passage; unestablished fields are explicitly marked.
Incredible India — Destination reference
Ministry of Tourism destination portal.
Living sacred geography · For present-day travel geography. Traditional epic identification is a separate claim; no excavation report is asserted here.Reference overview. Consult the identified text and passage; unestablished fields are explicitly marked.