Trains From Mughalsarai
Varanasi (Varanasi), Benares (Banaras), Kashi (Kashi) – The name of one of the city. There where the Ganges turns to the north, though it flowed from north to south, and flows several kilometers back to the mountains, is Varanasi. Reach there by Trains From Mughalsarai. This place is very sacred, along with the merger (Prayag), the Ganges and Jumna in Allabade. The first name of the city – Kashi. Kashi is one of the oldest cities on earth; he is mentioned in the Mahabharata, the Ramayana, the tales of Krishna and the Puranas. Kashi means “bright. People believe that here the first manifested itself in India dzhotirlingam (lingam of light), which looked, like a pillar of light, which rises from the earth to the sky. At this place stood the ancient temple Kashi Vishwanath, but in the 17 th century emperor Aurangzeb and his successors destroyed everything in Benares Hindu temples. In place of Vishwanath was built mosque.
