(EN) Kerry P. C. San Chirico, Banaras, in Mark Juergensmeyer e Wade Clark Roof (a cura di), Encyclopedia of Global Religion, vol.1, 2012, pp.114-116, ISBN9780761927297.
«Varanasi is the city's revived, post-independence designation, which combines the names of two rivers on either side of it»
(EN) Kerry P. C. San Chirico, Banaras, in Encyclopedia of Global Religion, vol.1, 2012, ISBN9780761927297.
«The city was identified in the Pali language as Baranasi, from which emerged the corrupt form of the name, 'Banaras', by which the city is still widely known»
(EN) Kerry P. C. San Chirico, Banaras, in Encyclopedia of Global Religion, vol.1, 2012, ISBN9780761927297.
«...in the fifth century BCE,... the Kingdom of Kashi was one of the 16 kingdoms to emerge from the ascendant Aryan tribes»
«As a place to die, to dispose of the physical remains of the deceased and to perform the rites which ensure that the departed attains a 'good state' after death, the north Indian city of Banaras attracts pilgrims and mourners from all over the Hindu world»