Sarnath
Sarnath is a holy town in Uttar Pradesh, India, about 13 km north-east of Varanasi. It's famous as the site of the deer park where Gautama Buddha first taught the Dharma and also where the original Sangha was formed.
- Type: Village
- Description: village in Varanasi district, Uttar Pradesh, India
- Address: Uttar Pradesh 221007
- Postal code: 221007
Sarnath
- Categories: census town of India, city, and locality
- Location: Sadar, Varanasi, Purvanchal, Uttar Pradesh, Plains, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
25.3776° or 25° 22′ 40″ north
Longitude
83.0276° or 83° 1′ 39″ east
Elevation
84 metres (276 feet)
Open location code
7MQ592HH+32
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Panjabi—“Sarnath” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Sarnath”
- Albanian: “Sarnathi”
- Assamese: “সাৰনাথ”
- Basque: “Sarnath”
- Bengali: “সারনাথ”
- Bhojpuri: “सारनाथ”
- Burmese: “မိဂဒါဝုန်”
- Burmese: “ဣသိပတန မိဂဒါဝုန်”
- Catalan: “Sarnath”
- Central Bikol: “Sarnath”
- Chinese: “Sarnath”
- Chinese: “鹿野苑”
- Croatian: “Sarnath”
- Czech: “Isipatana”
- Czech: “Ršipatana”
- Czech: “Sarnáth”
- Czech: “Sárnáth”
- Dutch: “Sarnath”
- Esperanto: “Sarnato”
- Estonian: “Sārnāth”
- Finnish: “Sarnath”
- French: “Sarnath”
- French: “Sârnâth”
- French: “Sārnāth”
- Gan Chinese: “鹿野苑”
- German: “Sarnath”
- Gujarati: “સારનાથ”
- Hausa: “Sarnath”
- Hebrew: “סרנאט”
- Hindi: “सारनाथ”
- Hungarian: “Szárnáth”
- Indonesian: “Sarnath”
- Italian: “Isipatana”
- Italian: “Isipathana”
- Italian: “Sarnath”
- Italian: “Sārnāth”
- Japanese: “サールナート”
- Japanese: “サルナート”
- Japanese: “鹿野宛”
- Japanese: “鹿野苑”
- Kannada: “ಸಾರನಾಥ”
- Kashmiri: “سارناتھ”
- Korean: “녹야원”
- Korean: “사르나트”
- Lithuanian: “Sarnathas”
- Malayalam: “സാരാനാഥ്”
- Marathi: “सारनाथ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sarnath”
- Nepali: “सारनाथ”
- Newari: “सारनाथ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sarnath”
- Norwegian: “Sarnath”
- Panjabi: “ਸਾਰਨਾਥ”
- Persian: “سارناث”
- Polish: “Park Jeleni”
- Polish: “Sarnath”
- Portuguese: “Saranate”
- Portuguese: “Sarnath”
- Russian: “Сарнатх”
- Sanskrit: “सारनाथम्”
- Scots: “Sarnath”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sarnath”
- Sinhala: “සාරනාත්”
- Sinhala: “සාරානාත්”
- Slovenian: “Sarnat”
- Spanish: “Sarnath”
- Swedish: “Isipatana”
- Swedish: “Mrigadava”
- Swedish: “Rishipattana”
- Swedish: “Sarnath”
- Tamil: “சாரநாத்”
- Telugu: “సారనాథ్”
- Thai: “ธรรมเมกขสถูป”
- Thai: “ป่าอิสิตปตนมฤคทายวัน”
- Thai: “ป่าอิสิปตนมฤคทายวัน”
- Thai: “สถานที่แสดงปฐมเทศนา”
- Thai: “สารนาถ”
- Thai: “อิสิปตนมฤคทายวัน”
- Turkish: “Sarnath”
- Ukrainian: “Сарнатх”
- Urdu: “سارناتھ”
- Vietnamese: “Sarnath”
- Welsh: “Sarnath”
- Western Panjabi: “سارناتھ”
- “सारनाथ”
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