Pindaruch · पिण्डारुछ

Birthplace of the poet Chanda Jha, author of the Maithili Ramayana

Pindaruch — AI-generated illustration in the Mithila (Madhubani) style
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Pindaruch, in Darbhanga district, is remembered as the birthplace (1831) of the poet Chanda JhaKavi Chandra — who gave Mithila its first Ramayana in Maithili and did more than anyone since Vidyapati to make the language a vehicle of serious literature.

Like Bisfi for Vidyapati, Pindaruch is one of those modest Maithil villages whose name is carried far beyond its fields by the work of a single great writer born within it.

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