Banauli Vidyapati Dih
{{Short description|Place related to Vidyapati}}
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Banauli Vidyapati Dih ({{langx|mai|बनौली विद्यापति डीह}}) is a historical place related to the great Maithili poet Vidyapati. It is located at Banauli village of Mahottari district in Madhesh Pradesh of Mithila region in Nepal.
It is 3.8 miles or 6.116 kilometres South-West from the historical, cultural and religious city of Janakpur Dham in Nepal. It is believed that when the Mughal emperor arrested the King Sivasimha of Mithila, then the King said to his friend and priest Vidyapati to flew his wife Lakhima Devi into the neighbouring country Nepal at his friends kingdom Banauli Raj. Dronwara Puraditya was the King of Banauli Raj Kingdom. Vidyapati and the queen Lakhima Devi took asylum at the court of Dronwara Puraditya. It is said that they lived here for twelve years. Vidyapati wrote many books there.{{Cite web |last=Collegenp |title=Madhesh Pradesh Govt Policies and Programs for the Fiscal Year 2079/80 |url=https://www.collegenp.com/article/madhesh-pradesh-govt-policies-and-programs-for-the-fiscal-year-2079-80/ |access-date=2022-08-01 |website=Collegenp |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2016-03-31 |title=King Shiv Singh – a fearless warrior who sacrificed himself for Mithila's freedom » MithilaConnect Local |url=https://local.mithilaconnect.com/articles/719-king-shiv-singh-a-fearless-warrior-who-fought-for-mithila-s-freedom |access-date=2022-08-01 |website=MithilaConnect Local |language=en-US |archive-date=2022-09-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220911100344/https://local.mithilaconnect.com/articles/719-king-shiv-singh-a-fearless-warrior-who-fought-for-mithila-s-freedom |url-status=dead }} The Government of Madhesh Pradesh declared it as a tourist centre.{{Cite web |script-title=ne:मधेश प्रदेश,नेपाल |url=https://pipramun.gov.np/ |access-date=2022-08-01 |script-website=ne:पिपरा गाउँपालिका}}{{Cite news |last=टुडे |first=जनकपुर |date=2020-12-05 |script-title=hi:कुन बनौली ? कहा"को बनौली ? |url=https://ejanakpurtoday.com/22315/ |access-date=2022-08-01 |work=Janakpur Today |language=en-US |archive-date=2022-09-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220911100343/https://ejanakpurtoday.com/22315/ |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web |date=2022-06-15 |script-title=ne:मधेश प्रदेशको बजेट : पुरानै कार्यक्रमलाई निरन्तरता |url=https://rajdhanidaily.com/id/64378/ |access-date=2022-08-01 |script-website=ne:राजधानी राष्ट्रिय दैनिक |language=ne-NP}}
History
The presence of the place is recorded in the poem “Trishit” of Kali Kant Jha. There is a library called as Vidyapati Memorial Library near the site in the Banauli village of Nepal. There is a very big pond named as Lakshmi Sagar near the site. The site has been also recorded as the site of the capital of King Puraditya of Dronwara Dynasty Kingdom in the ancient Mithila. Dronwara Puraditya was the friend of another great Emperor King Sivasimha of Oiniwar dynasty in Mithila.{{Cite web |last=admin |title=विद्यापतिक प्रबास, बनौली गामक बास {{!}} मिथिला मिरर |url=https://mithilamirror.com/2016/03/18/song-written-by-kali-kant-jha-trishit/ |access-date=2022-08-05 |language=en-US |archive-date=2022-08-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220805171241/https://mithilamirror.com/2016/03/18/song-written-by-kali-kant-jha-trishit/ |url-status=dead }} According to the poem "Trishit" the Maithili poet Vidyapati wrote his books Bhagavat, Durga Bhakti and Tarangini here.{{Cite book |last=Digital Library of India |url=http://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.484168 |title=Sahitiyakar Sahitiyamala |pages=9}} According to a journal article "CREDIT SYSTEM IN MITHILA" at JSTOR, Vidyapati wrote his famous book Likhanavali at the court of King Dronwara Puraditya in Raj Banauli around Lakshman Samvat 299 ( 1418 AD ). Likhanavali is an important work of Vidyapati for the study of administrative, cultural and socio-economic life of early 15th century in Mithila.{{Cite journal |last=Prasad |first=Pushpa |date=2001 |title=CREDIT SYSTEM IN MITHILA: Credit System in 15th century Bihar (Based on "Likhanavali" Documents) |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44155761 |journal=Proceedings of the Indian History Congress |volume=62 |pages=192–198 |jstor=44155761 |issn=2249-1937}}
