Amazon Quiz: This visual shows which city?

Amazon Quiz: This visual shows which city?

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Varanasi

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Answer: Varanasi

Varanasi is a city on the Ganges river in northern India that plays a significant role in Hindu rituals related to death, sorrow, and pilgrimage, despite the traditions changing as a result of modernity, generational shifts, and emigration. The city’s tourism is supported by a syncretic history of Muslim artisanship.

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Varanasi is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities. Its prehistoric name, Kashi, was connected to a kingdom with the same name that existed 2,500 years ago. The Buddha reportedly delivered his first speech at nearby Sarnath, according to Buddhist legend. Adi Shankara created Varanasi’s recognised sect of Shiva worship in the eighth century. The city has always been a significant hub for Hindu devotion, pilgrimage, mysticism, and poetry, which has contributed to its cultural significance.

According to Hindu mythology, Shiva, one of the three main Hindu gods along with Brahma and Vishnu, built Varanasi. Brahma and Shiva engaged in combat, and Shiva tore off one of Brahma’s five heads.

As was customary, the winner took the head of his defeated foe in his hand and let it hang from his hand as a display of his valour and an act of humiliation. In the mouth was also a bridle. Shiva kept Brahma’s head with him at all times after dishonouring it in this manner.

The hanging head of Brahma fell from Shiva’s grasp as he arrived in Varanasi in this manner, and it vanished into the earth. Therefore, Varanasi is regarded as a very sacred location.