Hayaghat, a block and station in Darbhanga district, takes its name and importance from its crossing of the Bagmati — the Kathmandu-born river that, having drained the Nepal hills, winds through the Darbhanga plains. The rail and road bridges here are a key link westward toward Samastipur and Muzaffarpur.
It is one of those unassuming Maithil river-towns whose life is set by the water: fertile when the Bagmati is kind, anxious when the monsoon swells it.