2) Benares. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...See Varanasi....

3) Varanasi. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Varanasi, (vran´se) (KEY) , formerly Benares (bna´riz) (KEY) , city (1991 pop. 1,030,863), Uttar Pradesh state, N central India, on the Ganges River. Although a rail...

4) 28. The Life of Gautama Buddha. Wells, H.G. 1922. A Short History of the World
...thought and feeling of all Asia. This was Gautama Buddha, who taught his disciples at Benares in India about the same time that Isaiah was prophesying among the Jews...

5) Kabir. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...(kber´) (KEY) , 1440-1518, Indian mystic and poet. A Muslim by birth, he was a weaver in Benares (Varanasi) and early in life may have become the disciple of the...

6) Sarnath. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...(KEY) , archaeological site, SE Uttar Pradesh, India, 4 mi (6.4 km) N of Varanasi (Benares). It is the site of the deer park (mrigadawa) where, according to tradition,...

7) Bhave, Vinoba. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Indian religious figure, founder of the Bhoodan Movement. While studying Sanskrit in Benares (Varanasi), he joined Mohandas K. Gandhi as a disciple. At Gandhi's request...

8) pilgrim. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...to Eleusis and Delphi. Pilgrimages are well established in India (e.g., to Varanasi, or Benares, on the sacred Ganges River), in China (e.g., to Mt. Tai), and in...

9) §32. Fitzedward Hall; English Lexicography. XXV. Scholars. Vol. 18. Later National Literature, Part III. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...in time he became tutor and professor of Sanskrit and English in the Government College at Benares, and in 1862 he was appointed professor of Sanskrit, Hindustani,...

10) brasses, ornamental. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...brass was beaten and hollow-cast, and in India an excellent decorated brass known as Benares ware is still produced. In Europe, the Meuse valley became the center...