<b> <c c="#a00149">Videha</c> </b> <br>A country and its people. At the time of the Buddha, Videha formed one of the two important principalities of the Vajjian confederacy. Its capital was Mithilā. The kingdom bordered on the Ganges, on one side of which was Māgadha and on the other Videha. <c c="#3b6bd3">MN.i.225</c> Adjacent to it were Kāsi and Kosala. One of Bimbisāra’s queens was probably from Videha. In earlier times Videha was evidently a kingdom, its best known kings being Mahājanaka and Nimi; but in the Buddha’s time it was a republic, part of the Vajjian federation. According to the Mahāgovinda Sutta, <c c="#3b6bd3">DN.ii.235</c> it was King Reṇu who, with the help of Mahāgovinda Jotipāla, founded the Videha kingdom.<br> <br>Location: <iref href="https://www.google.com/maps/search/26.712222, 85.921667">26.712222, 85.921667</iref> (Precision: 1, Type: region)<br> </deftext>
videha a. 1 Bodiless; incorporeal. 2 Trunkless. — hAH ( m. pl. ) 1 N. of a country, the ancient Mithilā (see App. III.); R. 11. 36 , 12. 26. 2 The natives of this country. — haH 1 The district Videha. 2 N. of Janaka. — hA The same as videha .
videha N. of a country lying to the northeast of Magadha. Its capital Mithilā is the same as Janakapur in Nepal north of Madhuvāṇī. Videha must have covered, in ancient times, besides a portion of Nepal, all such places as Sītāmāri, Sītākuṇḍa, or the northern part of the old district of Trihut and the north-western portion of Champaran.
(masc, masc) name of a country; modern day Mithila, Tirhut