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Maithil Brahmins are the Indo-Aryan Hindu Brahmin community originating from the Mithila region of the Indian subcontinent that comprises Madhesh Province & some areas of Koshi Province of Nepal and the Darbhanga, Kosi, Purnia,Munger, Bhagalpur,Santhal Pargana division of India and are also found in New Delhi [a] of India. [1]
Vidyapati (c. 1352 – 1448), also known by the sobriquet Maithil Kavi Kokil (the poet cuckoo of Maithili), was a Maithili and Sanskrit polymath-poet-saint, playwright, composer, biographer, [2] philosopher, [3] law-theorist, [4] writer, courtier and royal priest. [5] He was a devotee of Shiva, but also wrote love songs and devotional Vaishnava ...
Kojagra is a sanskar ritual associated with the tradition of the Maithil Vivah among the communities of Maithil Brahmins and Maithil Kayasthas. It is a Lokaparva of the Mithila region . In the festival of Kojagra, a Bhaada of fruits, sweets, Mithila Makhana , Batasha and Paan , etc is sent from the house of newly married brides to the house of ...
Maithili Music is said to be the song of the gods. Many of the songs are used as way to pray to the gods. Songs relating to agriculture and Devotional songs are the two main type songs which can see as prayers to the God above. The songs describe the outstanding traits of the gods and goddesses and sometimes the traits of their worshipers.
Brahmin Sub-Cast In Office Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan [351] [352] 5 September 1888 17 April 1975 Niyogi Brahmin: Second President (13 May 1962 – 13 May 1967) V. V. Giri [353] 10 August 1894 24 June 1980 Niyogi Brahmin: fourth president. 24 August 1969 to 24 August 1974. Ramaswamy Venkataraman [354] 4 December 1910 27 January 2009 Iyer Brahmin ...
The Maithil Kayasthas and Maithil Brahmin delegates assembled in a conference to deliberate upon new marriage alliances duly checked with the respective panjikars at these places. Among these Sabha Gachhis, the Sabha Gachhi near the outskirts of Madhubani city called as Saurath is considered as the oldest and the most popular.
Udit Narayan Jha was born on 1 December 1955 in an ethnic Maithil Brahmin family to Harekrishna Jha, a Nepalese national, and Bhuvaneshwari Jha, an Indian national. [13] [14] [15] In 2009, when Narayan was awarded India's fourth highest civilian honour Padma Shri, there were reports questioning his Indian citizenship, claiming that he was born in Nepal.
Gajendra Thakur (born 1971) is an Indian author. He writes in the Maithili language, a language spoken in Northern Bihar (of India) and South-Eastern Nepal.He is an author, lexicographer, historian (of Mithila- ancient Videha and of Maithili); and palaeographer, he has deciphered ancient and medieval palm leaf inscriptions in Tirhuta script of Maithili Language (Mithilakshar script).