According to the single best eyewitness chronicle—the bakhar by Shuja-ud-Daulah 's Diwan Kashi Raj—about 40,000 Maratha prisoners were slaughtered Killing in cold blood the day after the battle .

Also close by is the historic Kashi Vishwanath Temple , the Shiva temple which has one of the 12 Jyotirlinga of India .