Darbhanga, Bihar
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| Metropolitan City | |
Lalit Narayan Mithila University at Darbhanga
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| Nickname(s): Medical city, Cultural Capital of Bihar | |
 Darbhanga
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| Coordinates: 26°10′N 85°54′E / 26.17°N 85.9°ECoordinates: 26°10′N 85°54′E / 26.17°N 85.9°E | |
| Country | India |
| State | Bihar |
| Region | Mithila |
| District | Darbhanga |
| Elevation | 52 m (171 ft) |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Total | 310,525 |
| • Rank |
5th (Bihar) 155th (India) |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Maithili, Hindi |
| Time zone | IST (UTC+5:30) |
| PIN | 8460xx |
| Telephone code | 06272 |
| ISO 3166 code | IN-BR |
| Vehicle registration | BR-07 |
| Sex ratio | 910:1000 ♂/♀ |
| Lok Sabha constituency | Darbhanga |
| Vidhan Sabha constituency | Darbhanga, Darbhanga Rural |
| Website | darbhanga |
Darbhanga is the fifth largest city in Indian state of Bihar. A sub metropolitan city of North Bihar and municipal corporation in Bihar, India, with a population of nearly 4 lakh people. It is the headquarters of Darbhanga district and Darbhanga division. Darbhanga is a rapidly developing city and is the cultural hub of Mithila. Darbhanga is biggest medical hub of North Bihar after Patna and will have a software technology park soon. A green signal has been given by Ministry of Communications and Information Technology of Indian Government. Historically, it had the seating of Darbhanga Raj and became the capital of the Mithila region.
The history of Darbhanga dates back to the Ramayana and Mahabharata periods; it is among the oldest cities of Bihar. According to the Vedic sources, the Videhas first migrated to the area from the banks of Saraswati in Punjab; they were guided to the east of Sadanira (Gandak River) by Agni, the God of Fire. Settlements were established and, thus, flourished the kingdom of the Videhas, the Selfless.
In the course of time, Videhas came to be ruled by a line of kings called Janaks. In this line of kings, there was a very famous king named Mithi. To commemorate his greatness the territory was named as Mithila. Another famous king was Janak Sirdhwaja, father of Sita. The legends speak of various learned men patronized by Janak Sirdhwaja, who himself was an erudite scholar. Prominent among them were Yagyavalkya, who codified the Hindu law in his Yagyavalkya Smriti and Gautam, who had various valuable philosophical treatises to his credit. King Janak was himself a great philosopher and his ideas have been eternally enshrined in the Upanishads, especially in the Brihad-āraṇyaka Upaniṣada.
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