Journal & Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 1909 Extra No.

honorary Member of the Asiatic Society of Bengal of the American Oriental Society of the Nagari Pracarini Sabha and of the Suciett. [...] According to the Mithilamithatmya a Sanskrit work of considerable repute in the territory which it describes Mithila is the country bounded on the north by the Himalaya on the south by the Ganges on the west by the river Gandak and on the east by the river Kosi. [...] It has moreover crossed the Ganges and is now spoken over the whole of the South-Gangetic portion of the Bhagalpur District over the eastern portion of the South-Gangetic portion of the Monghyr District and in the north and west of the Sonthal Parganas. [...] The Maithili spoken in the Muzaffarpur District and in a strip of country on the western side of Darbhanga is strongly infected by the neighbouring Bhojpuri spoken in various forms in the adjacent district of Saran and in the greater part of Chaparan. [...] At the same time if an article in the Calcutta Review is to be believed the first translation of any portion of the Bible into any language of Northern India was that of the Gospels and Acts made into the Chike-chiki dialect of Maithili by Father Antonio at the end of the eighteenth century.