179) FRIDAY, 23 DECEMBER 1977 : 0KMS. - BENARES
Our campervan has been under reparing in the garage …. and it was my third relaxing day
in Varanasi , doing nothing !
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| AVARANASI Market - Photo : Jorge Royan (wikipedia.org) / Bing images search |
WIKIPEDIA: The earliest known archaeological evidence suggests that settlement around
Varanasi in the Middle Ages in the Ganga valley (the seat of Aryan religion and
philosophy), began in the 11th or 12th century BCE, placing it among the
world's oldest continually inhabited cities. These remains suggest that the
Varanasi area was populated by Vedic people. However, the Atharvaveda (the
oldest known text referencing the city), which dates to approximately the same
period, suggests that the area was populated by indigenous tribes. It is
possible that archaeological evidence of these previous inhabitants has yet to
be discovered. Varanasi was also home to Parshva, the 23rd Jain Tirthankara and
the earliest Tirthankara that is accepted as a historical figure, in the 8th
century BCE.
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