Baliraajgadh

Baliraajgadh
Archaeological site
Coordinates (Approximately Middle of the Campus): 26°27′34″N 86°19′23″E / 26.4594651°N 86.3230140°E / 26.4594651; 86.3230140
India	India
State	Bihar
District	Babubarhi Assembly constituency Madhubani
Named for	King Bali
Area
• Land	72 ha (179 acres)
Languages
• Official	Maithili , Hindi, Urdu
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)

Baliraajgadh is an archaeological site located at Babubarhi block in Madhubani district of Mithila region of Bihar state in India. The site is locally known as Raja Bali ka Garh ( The fort of King Bali ) . The site was first sighted and identified by George Grierson, the then subdivisional officer of Darbhanga in 1884 AD.^[1] It is among the three important archeological sites Balirajgarh fort, Telhara and Nalanda in the state of Bihar in India.^[2] The site of Balirajgarh is greater than the site of Vikramshila and Vaishali but it has not yet been developed as a tourist place.^[3] Balirajgarh Fort is located on the territory of Mithila, 7 kilometers east of Kamlabalan River and 35 kilometers west of Kosi River. It has been claimed by some scholars to be the location of the ancient city of Mithila.^[4][5] The headquarter of the Ancient Mithila University was at the court of King Janaka in Mithila. Therefore, Balirajgadh is also the possible site of the Ancient Mithila University. It is the place from where most of the schools of the ancient Indian philosophy emerged. Nyaya Shastra, Logical sciences, Samkhya Shastra, Mimansa Shastra and many more Indian philosophy emerged from the Ancient Mithila University.^[6]

In Xuanzang's record, two clans were linked with Vajji/Mithila by 646: Vaishali and Vrijji. Vaishali was both Buddhist and Hindu while Vrijji was predominantly Hindu and the capital of it Zhanshuna (占戍挐, possibly from Sanskrit "Cemśoṇa/Cansuna").^[7]