Varanasi, the Spiritual Capital of India, a city as old as time itself, as rightly put by Mark Twain, 'Benares is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together'. During the Muslim rule through 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 educatio