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King Nanyadeva of Mithila

By Ramesh Chandra Majumdar

Vol. 7 · No. 4December - 1931pp. 679–689English

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  • “King Ninyadeva played था important part 10 north Indian politics in the first half of the twelfth century 2.0, He was of Kamaitic origin, but founded an important ruling family in ‘Mithila (N. Behar} and Nepila”
  • “The Nepalese chronicles have preserved conflicting traditions about the time of Ninyadeva., But M. Sylvain Lévi was the first to establish, on a satisfactory basis, that the accession of the king falls in 100૪ ૩.0”
  • “Nanyadeva originally belonged to Karpita country. This is expressly referred to 10 चाह Nepalese chronicles and clearly appears from the title KarpatakuladhUsana occurring in the Commentary composed by Ninyadeva”

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  1. Quarterly Journal of the Andira Historical Research .S‘.oa'fly, October, 1926, pp. 55-63.
  2. Le Nepal, ખાં, 11, 02. 197, [1 3,
  3. DPischel, Katalog der Bibliothek der Deutschen Morgenlandischen Gessellschatt, vol. 11, 9. 8,
  4. Lévi, Le Nepal, ૪૦, 11, 2. 220, .
  5. Puruga Pariks, |, 3. 6 But see fn, 2, p. 688 below.

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Vol. 7 · No. 4
629–634Mahanitakam – Our Text635–650Notes on the Nagarjunakonda Inscriptions651–654Kulasekhara Alvar and His DateK. G. Sesha Aiyar655–679Early Visnuism and Narayaniya WorshipMrinal Das Gupta679–689King Nanyadeva of MithilaRamesh Chandra MajumdarCurrent article683–702The Sea and Land Travels of a Buddhist Sadhu in the Sixteenth CenturyGiuseppe Tucci689–702The Coins and Weights in Ancient IndiaA. K. Sarkar703–708Fire-Arms in Ancient IndiaJogesh Chandra Roy703–709Finger-posts of Bengal HistoryBijoy Nath Sarkar709–715Studies in the KautilyaNarendra Nath Law716–726On Some Castes and Caste-origins in SylhetK. M. Gupta727–734The Chando-Vedanga of PingalaMano Mohan Ghosh735–737On the origin of the Aryan word IstakaJean Przyluski737–740An Inscription of Asoka discovered at YerragudiDineshchandra Sircar740–741Bodhichitta-vivarna of NagarjunaP. C. Bagchi741–742On the antiquity of the name "Kasthamandapa" or "Kathmandu"P. C. Bagchi743–746Identification of BrahmaputraK. M. Gupta746–747MeradaLakshmi Narayan Harichandan Jagadeb747–750Origin of the Lotus-CapitalAnanda Kentish Coomaraswamy750The Gudimallam LingamAnanda Kentish Coomaraswamy751–753GopalaJogendra Chandra Ghosh753–756Early Capital of the Gurjara Pratiharas of MahodayaJogendra Chandra Ghosh757–759The St. Thomas Tradition and a Recent Discovery in TravancoreC. S. Srinivasachari760–768ReviewsSushil Kumar De, Batakrishna Ghosh, D. Bhattacharya769–775Select Contents of Oriental Journals776–778Obituary Notice: Pandit R. D. BanerjiRamaprasad Chanda779–782Bibliographical Notes

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