Varanasi (Kāśī)

Varanasi (Kāśī, also Banaras) is a city on the left bank of the Ganges in Uttar Pradesh, north India, and one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities and pilgrimage centres of the subcontinent. It is associated with the Hindi devotional poets Tulsīdās and Kabīr and with Vallabhācārya, founder of the Puṣṭimārga.