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Darbhanga District Gazetteer

1906

a short distance to the north-west of the district in Nepal territorr the named which preserves the memory of the scholar-king who made it his capital ; and tradition points to the village of Phulhar in the north-east corner of the Benipati thana as the flowegarden where the king's priests used to gather flowers for the worship of the gods and identifies its temple with that of the Devi Girij [...] of Kakra/1.1 at the eastern junction of the Kanila and Karai.tyas the abod(rof the saw; Kapildeva Muni the celebrated author of the tollection of Vedic hymns called the Sankhya Yoga ; while in the north-west corner of the Darbhanga thana there stands to this day the Brahmanical village of Ahiari where lived the third member of the famous trio 44f Tirhut sages Gautama Rishi the author of the Nyt [...] Hajipur situated at the confluence of the Gansaak with the Ganges was a position of great strategical importance; it was long the heaquarters of the Governors of the Bengal kings and was the scene of more than one rebellion ; and the result is that the Musalman rule has left many more traces iq the south than in the north of Tirhut. [...] the language of Mithila or the country AGE bounded on the north by the Himalayas on the south Ly the Ganges on the west by the Gandak and on the east by the river I(Qsi. [...] The river Gandak proved in the days of the Muhammadan ini-asion a curiously strong barrier ; and while the countries to the west of the Gandak and south of the Ganges were constantly subjected to the turbulent influences that accompanied the rule of the Mughal dynasty the country of Mithila the modern Tirhut remained more or less at peace under Hindu kings The results of this seclusion may be s
government politics public policy
Pages
167
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100009
Segment Pages Author Actions
Chapter I. Physical Aspects
1-10 unknown view
Chapter II. History
11-22 unknown view
Chapter III. The People
23-41 unknown view
Chapter IV. Public Health
42-48 unknown view
Chapter V. Agriculture
49-63 unknown view
Chapter VI. Natural Calamities
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Chapter VII. Rents Wages and Prices
80-89 unknown view
Chapter VIII. Occupations Manufactures and Trade
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Chapter IX. The Indigo Industry
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Chapter X. Means of Communication
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Chapter XI. Land Revenue Administration
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Chapter XII. General Administration
124-130 unknown view
Chapter XIII. Local Self-Government
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Chapter XIV. Education
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Chapter XV. Gazetteer
141-158 unknown view
Index
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