Saharsa

Saharsa is a city and a municipality in the Saharsa district in the eastern part of the state of Bihar, India. It is arranged close to the eastern banks of the Kosi River. It fills in as the regulatory central command for the Saharsa District, and is additionally the capital Divisional Headquarter of the Kosi Division of the territory of Bihar, which incorporates three locale, to be specific Saharsa, Madhepura and Supaul. The name Saharsa may likewise allude to the Sahars Assembly Constituency, which comprises of the city and neighboring parts of the locale. The name Saharsa starts from the Sanskrit word Saharsha signifying 'weighed down with bliss'.

The city has a noteworthy number of Maithili speakers. Nearby Maithili, Hindi and Urdu are broadly comprehended and talked. Saharsa is a piece of the Mithila district. Mithila first picked up unmistakable quality after settlement by Indo-Aryan clans which set up the Mithila Kingdom otherwise called the Kingdom of the Videhas. Amid the late Vedic period c. 1100– 500 BCE, Videhas created as one of the major political and social focuses of South Asia, alongside Kuru and Pancala. The lords of the Videhas Kingdom were alluded to as Janakas. The Videha Kingdom was later consolidated into the Vajji alliance, which had its capital in the city of Vaishali, which is additionally situated in Mithila.