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Varanasi
India Post issued this ₹5 stamp on 24 October 2016 on the city of Varanasi, sixty years after Banaras was officially renamed in 1956. The name joins those of the Varana and Asi, two rivers that meet the Ganga there. First known as Kashi, “where the supreme light shines”, the capital of a kingdom of that name around 500 BC, it is one of the seven holy cities of Hinduism, a jyotirlinga and Shakti Peetha site, and the most visited place of pilgrimage in India.
City of Ghats
The Buddha, Mahavira, Kabir, Tulsidas, Shankaracharya, Ramanuja and Patanjali all meditated here, and at nearby Sarnath the Buddha preached his first sermon. Almost all of the city’s 5 kilometres of riverfront is lined with ghats, about a hundred bathing and burning ghats, of which Manikarnika is the most sacred.
The stamp was designed by Alka Sharma; Security Printing Press, Hyderabad printed 301,590.
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