Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Варанасі" in Ukrainian language version.
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.
... in the fifth century BCE, ..., the Kingdom of Kashi was one of the 16 kingdoms to emerge from the ascendant Aryan tribes.
Varanasi is the city's revived, post-independence designation, which combines the names of two rivers on either side of it.
Varanasi, also called Benares, Banaras, or Kashi, city, southeastern Uttar Pradesh state, northern India.
