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- proper noun dated Alternative form of
Varanasi .
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Examples
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I myself had experienced a rhythmic synchronicity in Benares 30 years before that set my personal metronome to a new beat.
Perry Garfinkel: A Hind-Jew in India Perry Garfinkel 2010
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The story's narrator is an extraterrestrial reincarnated as a human in Benares for the purpose of reaching enlightenment and gaining immortality.
Archive 2007-10-01 2007
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The story's narrator is an extraterrestrial reincarnated as a human in Benares for the purpose of reaching enlightenment and gaining immortality.
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Represented in Benares; the pages listed - among a multitude of names - those groups of Nepalese in the holy city of Banaras who carried the name Naipal.
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A fellow in Benares had lost three girls from plague.
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His canvas on display at Janus was titled 'Benares' - an oil painting on canvas in brilliant shades of blue depicting the fusion of faiths in two shadowy silhouettes of temples on a riverbank in the city.
India eNews 2008
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The place that he selected was ancient Sarnath, six miles from Benares, which is now a heap of ruins, in which British government experts are delving for remains of the great city that was founded six centuries before the Christian era.
The Critic in the Orient George Hamlin Fitch 1888
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The people of Nepal profess the Hindu faith and have close relations with the Brahmins at Benares, which is the Rome, or the Mecca, of
Modern India William Eleroy Curtis 1880
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Learning that there was no missionary at Allahabad, about seventy miles north-west of Benares, which is now the seat of Government for the
Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 James Kennedy 1857
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Also known as Benares, the city - in the state of Uttar Pradesh, 670km 415 miles
BBC News - Home 2010
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