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Darbhanga, Bihar

Darbhanga
Metropolitan City
Lalit Narayan Mithila University at Darbhanga
Nickname(s): Medical city, Cultural Capital of Bihar
Darbhanga is located in Bihar
Darbhanga
Darbhanga
Location in Bihar, India
Coordinates: 26°10′N 85°54′E / 26.17°N 85.9°E / 26.17; 85.9Coordinates: 26°10′N 85°54′E / 26.17°N 85.9°E / 26.17; 85.9
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.bih.nic.in

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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