History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c74.t2.102

v5.c74.t2.102

¹⁴¹⁴ Vide, for example, Prof. A S Altekar's 'History of Benares,' pp 2-7. The Nāradīya (uttara, chap. 29) states that Banaras was at first the city of Mādhava, but later on became a Saiva-kṣetra, is there any real historical basis here? If any historical conclusion is to be drawn from this statement of the Nāradīyapurāṇa it would be exactly the opposite of what Prof. Altekar has drawn, viz, that the non-Aryans scored a cultural victory over the Aryans at Banaras.