Krishna…Kashi opened her portals to everybody. There’s no god or goddess who hasn’t a home in Kashi. Every form of worship that exists in India exists here. People flocked here from all sorts of remote, nameless villages, braving robber gangs and spending their savings to pay the pilgrim tax that the sultans imposed on Hindus, driven only by an unwavering faith that death in Kashi ensured freedom from the endless cycles of birth and death. Every sect has a temple dedicated to its chief deity. Every minor and major god and goddess and character in our mythology has a house of worship in Kashi.
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