Kashi Vishwanath (Sanskrit: काशी विश्वनाथ, "Lord of the Universe of the Luminous City") is the presiding Shiva Jyotirlinga of Varanasi — the city that is itself the most layered sacred geography in the subcontinent. He is the Uttar Pradesh T0 anchor, one of the twelve Jyotirlingas, and the theological node where almost every other pilgrimage site in India has a ritual double (the "Kashi khanda" of the Skanda Purana enumerates over 300 linked shrines). Diana Eck (1983) famously characterise
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