Vishwanath
विश्वनाथ viśvanātha'Lord of All', Shiva as the central deity of Kashi, enshrined as one of the twelve Jyotirlingas; the Kashi Vishwanath temple is the heart of the city's sacred geography.
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- Hinduism and the Coming of Islam History
…he is tied to the documented destruction of famous temples, the Kashi Vishwanath at Varanasi in 1669 and the Keshava Deva at Mathura in 1670, with a mosque raised on the latter's ruins; and he had the Sikh Guru…
- A city made of gods Treatise
The lord and the queen The centre is Shiva as Vishveshvara , the Lord of All, worshipped as Vishwanath in the temple the whole city walks to, in the form of the Jyotirlinga , the pillar of light.
- The body of the city Treatise
The tradition holds that Kashi is not a city that grew by accident but one arranged as a cosmogram, a diagram of the whole cosmos and of the human body at once. Its…
- The city of four faiths Treatise
…played, for a lifetime, at the temples of Kashi, at the shrine of the Vishwanath temple and by the Ganga, and he said, again and again, that he could not imagine his art apart from this city and its river, that…
- The city that will not die Treatise
The great temple of Vishwanath was destroyed, deliberately and repeatedly, the last and most thorough demolition ordered in the seventeenth century, and the wound of that history stands today in the disputed gr…
- The ground under the ground Treatise
In 1780 the Maratha queen Ahilyabai Holkar of Indore built the present Kashi Vishwanath temple beside the mosque, the shrine the city still walks to every morning.
- The learned city Treatise
On the BHU campus rises a new temple of Vishwanath, a twentieth-century re-imagining of the great shrine, and unlike the ancient temple in its guarded medieval lanes, the new one was built open to all, admittin…
- The Lingam Explained Deities
Twelve shrines across India, from Somnath on the western sea to Kashi Vishwanath at Varanasi to Rameshwaram in the south, are revered as jyotirlingas, places where that pillar of light is held to have stood.