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Vyacheslav Argenberg  · CC BY 4.0

Place South Asian traditions

Varanasi

काशी sa वाराणसी hi வாரணாசி ta

City on the banks of the Ganges in the Uttar Pradesh state of India

  • Also called Banaras, Kashi, Benaras
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Overview

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From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.

Within the city

Inside Varanasi

Places whose own records locate them here.

Placed in these collections by the 4 places recorded in it or its districts: Computed

One place can be in more than one collection, so the counts can add up to more than the whole.

Site history & evidence

What is documented here

Each kind of evidence on its own row, because they do not add up.

Evidence On record What it shows
Site date None recorded The import holds no date for the site itself.
Location Recorded to the site On the atlas A coordinate for the place. It locates the site; it does not draw its extent.
Dated activity None recorded A pin is a place, not an event. What happened at Varanasi, and when, is a separate claim, and this import holds none: it carries site locations, not dated activity.

Also recorded as located here: Shaivism

Nearby

Places nearby

The nearest this collection holds, measured between recorded coordinates.

What this means

Computed from coordinates, not stated by any source. Nearness is geometry, not a connection: two sites a kilometre apart may never have shared a worshipper, a tradition or a century. Where either coordinate is recorded only to a district, the distance is rounded and says “about”.

Computed See them together on the atlas

Connections

How Varanasi connects

Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.

Place 1

What this means

Where something is, or is documented. A location is not by itself evidence of activity.

Does not imply that anything is documented to have happened there

Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

Sources

Sources and evidence

Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.

How this site reads its sources

2 statements on this record

  • 2 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 2 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.

Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.

Three layers, three licences

Data
Wikidata · CC0 1.0
Text
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
Pictures
Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms

Review

Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.

Computed Worked out here, not stated by any source: 2 collection memberships. Each is marked where it is shown.

Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.

Saileshpat · CC BY-SA 4.0

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