Varna Ratnakara

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Varna Ratnakara
वर्ण रत्नाकार
Tirhuta
DiscoveredPandit Hara Prasad Shastri (1885-90) in Nepal

The Varna Ratnakara,

Karnat dynasty whose capitals were in both Simraungadh and Darbhanga.[7]

This work contains descriptions of various subjects and situations. This work provides valuable information about the life and culture of medieval India.

Asiatic Society, Kolkata[9][10]

The word Abahattha was used for the very first time in this encyclopedic work.[11] Later the Maithili poet Vidyapati wrote his poem Kīrttilatā in Abahatta.[12]

Author

Varṇa Ratnākara was written by Jyotirīśvara Ṭhākura, also spelled Jyotirishwar Thakur. Thakur was born in a Brahmin family. He was son of Rāmeśvara and grandson of Dhīreśvara. He was the court poet of King Harisimhadeva of Karnata dynasty of Mithila.

References

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    OCLC 40268712
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  3. ^ Chatterji, Suniti Kumar (1966). The People, Language, and Culture of Orissa. Orissa Sahitya Akademi. p. 19.
  4. ^ Sharma, R.K. "International Sanskrit Conference, New Delhi, March 26th-31st, 1972, Volume 2, Part 1". The Ministry, 1972. 2: 141.
  5. ^ Choudhary, Indra Kumar (1988). Some Aspects of Social Life of Medieval Mithila, 1350-1750 A.D.: With a Special Reference to Contemporary Literatures. Kashi Prasad Jayaswal Research Institute. p. 187.
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  7. ^ Jha, Sureshwar (2005). "Political Thinkers in Mithila". p. 192. Retrieved 7 January 2018.
  8. ^ Majumdar, Ramesh Chandra; Pusalker, A. D.; Majumdar, A. K., eds. (1960). The History and Culture of the Indian People. Vol. VI: The Delhi Sultanate. Bombay: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan. p. 515. The Varṇa Ratnākara of Jyotirīśvara Ṭhākura ... was written about 1325. This is a work of set descriptions of various subjects and situations, to supply ready-made cliché passages to story-tellers ... [it] is important, not only because it gives us specimens of pure Maithilī prose ... but also because it is a store-house of information, conveyed through words, about the life and culture of early Medieval India in all their aspects.
  9. ^ MS. No. 4834 of Asiatic Society of Bengal
  10. ^ Shastri, Haraprasad Ed (1916). Hajar Bachorer Purano Bangla Bhashay Bouddha Gan O Doha. pp. 35–36.
  11. OCLC 40268712
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  12. OCLC 1083625313.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link
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