History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c75.511.1

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*hastas*) in all directions from the shrine of Viśveśvara 628, āyatanas, fourteen named 640, belief that dying in Banaras freed one from saṃsāra, led the old and decrepit to crowd in K. and persons about to die were removed to the banks of the Ganges 626, called Jītvarī by traders 621, construction and endowment of *mathas* at K. highly eulogised 639, conclusions drawn from the stories in the Epic and Purāṇas that Banaras was once a centre of non-Aryan worship criticized 622-623; Daśāśvamedha-ghāṭ famed for centuries 634-635, derivation and significance of the name Kāśī 625; eulogies of greatness and uniqueness of K cover thousands of verses 629, famed for the qualities of its cloth in the second century B. C. 619, first called Ānandakānana and then Avimukta 624; five questions about K. asked by sages to Bhṛgu in the Padmapurāṇa 623; for devotees of Śiva there is no other remedy even in great calamities or incurable diseases than touching the water of the feet of the image of God 641, Gaṇeśas are 56 at K. 638; ghāṭs in Banaras for at least a thousand years 634-637, hardly any other city in the world can claim greater antiquity, greater continuity and greater popular veneration than Banaras 618; hyperbolic descriptions of the results of bathing and dying in Kāśī in the Purāṇas 629-630, in the times of Buddha, Banaras was a great and famous city like Rājagṛha, Sāketa, Śrāvasti 621, individual tīrthas in K. described 632-640;