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Guru Nanak visited Varanasi for Maha Shivaratri in 1507, a trip that played a large role in the founding of Sikhism. Several other major figures of the Bhakti movement were born in Varanasi, including Kabir and Ravidas. Tulsidas wrote his epic poem on Rama's life called Ram Charit Manas in Varanasi. During the Muslim rule through the Middle Ages, the city continued as an important centre of Hindu devotion, pilgrimage, mysticism and poetry which further contributed to its reputation as a centre of cultural importance and religious education. The city's religious importance continued to grow in the 8th century, when Adi Shankara established the worship of Shiva as an official sect of Varanasi. Buddha is recorded in the Pali canon to have given his first sermon, " The Setting in Motion of the Wheel of Dharma", at nearby Sarnath in 528 BCE. Varanasi is an important industrial centre famous for its muslin and silk fabrics, perfumes, ivory works, and sculpture. It lies on National Highway 2, and is served by Varanasi Junction railway station and Lal Bahadur Shastri International Airport. It is 692 kilometres (430 mi) to the southeast of India's capital New Delhi, 320 kilometres (200 mi) south-east of the state capital, Lucknow, and 121 kilometres (75 mi) east of Allahabad, another Hindu pilgrimage site. Located in the middle-Ganges valley in the southeastern part of the state of Uttar Pradesh, Varanasi lies on the left bank of the river.
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The city has a syncretic tradition of Muslim artisanship that underpins its tourism. Varanasi ( Vārāṇasī ), officially so revived after 1947, but still widely known as Banaras or Benares ( Banāras ( listen)), and in ancient times as Kashi, is a city on the Ganges river in northern India that has a central place in pilgrimage, death, and mourning in the Hindu world.