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The name Maithili is derived from the word Mithila, an ancient kingdom of which King Janaka was the ruler (see Ramayana). Maithili is also one of the names of Sita, the wife of King Rama and daughter of King Janaka. Scholars in Mithila used Sanskrit for their literary work and Maithili was the language of the common folk .
Jagannath Mishra, former chief minister of Bihar and a Maithili speaker [21] Majority of Maithils normally reside north of the Ganges; based around Darbhanga and the rest of North Bihar. [22] [2] Native Maithili speakers also reside in Delhi, Kolkata, Patna, Ranchi and Mumbai. [23] There are almost 70 million Maithils in India. [24]
Maithili language, an Indo-Aryan language spoken in India and Nepal Maithili script or Mithilakshar, the traditional writing system used to write Maithili; Maithili literature; Maithili music; Maithili Express, a mail/express type train of Indian Railways; Maithili New Year, in the Maithili calendar; Maithili Sharan (born 1953), Indian ...
Sita (Sanskrit: सीता; IAST: Sītā), also known as Siya, Jānaki and Maithili, is a Hindu goddess and the female protagonist of the Hindu epic Ramayana. Sita is the consort of Rama , the avatar of god Vishnu , and is regarded as an avatar of goddess Lakshmi . [ 12 ]
The native language is known as Maithili and its speakers are referred to as Maithils. [1] The majority of the Mithila region falls within modern-day India, more specifically in the state of Bihar. [2] Mithila is bounded in the north by the Himalayas, and in the south, west and east by the Ganges, Gandaki and Mahananda respectively.
Mithila (IAST: Mithilā), also known as Tirhut, Tirabhukti and Mithilanchal, is a geographical and cultural region of the Indian subcontinent bounded by the Mahananda River in the east, the Ganges in the south, the Gandaki River in the west and by the foothills of the Himalayas in the north.
Mithila culture or Maithil culture refers to the culture which originated in the Mithila region of the Indian subcontinent.Mithila comprises Tirhut, Darbhanga, Kosi, Purnia, Munger, Bhagalpur and Santhal Pargana divisions of India [1] and adjoining provinces of Province No. 1, Bagmati Pradesh, and Madhesh Province of Nepal.
The Maithili Wikipedia is the Maithili language version of Wikipedia, run by the Wikimedia Foundation. The site was launched on 6 November 2014. [1] As of February 2025, it has 14,145 articles and 15,185 registered users. Today, Maithili is written in the Devanagari script [2] and the site uses the same.