ABOUT DEO/DEV

About Deo/Dev

• Deo is the caste of people which are mostly of indian origin

• They speaks maithili

• They are rich in culture and traditions.
• They follow Maithil Culture

About word "Mithila"

• The name Mithila is also used to refer to a style of Hindu art, Madhubani art, created

  

  MITHILA PAINTING

  in the Mithila area

• This art originated as ritual geometric and symbolic decorations on the walls and floors of a house, generally done by women before a marriage

• The custom was not known to many outside the region
• After paper was brought to the area, women began to sell their artwork and expand their subjects to popular and local Hindu deities as well as to the depiction of everyday events
• Ganga Devi is perhaps the most famous Mithila artist; her work includes traditional ritual Mithila decorations, depictions of popular deities, scenes from the Ramayana, and events in her own life

Deo/Dev Is Royal Family

• Mandev was a great Lichchhavi king
• After the downfall of the Kiranti rule, Some dynasty came into power

• Only five kings of this dynasty ruled over Nepal

• Bhaskerverma was the last king
• After that Lichchhavi rule began in Nepal
• The Lichchhavis had come to Nepal from India
• Vaisalia was the Lichchhavis homeland

• After it was destroyed by Ajatsatru, they flew away to Nepal

• Supuspa was the first lichchhavis to enter Nepal and Jaydev I established Lichchhavi rule in Nepal in around 300 A.D.

• Jaya Dev  was the first king of this line

• He has defeated Vasker Verma of of soma dynasty and established Lichchhavis dynasty
• Mandev was a great Lichchhavi king
• He ascended the throne after his father Dharmdev's death

• He was very young when he bacame king

• His mother Rajyawati helped him much in the administration
• Mandev is called the first historacal king of Nepal
• It is proved by the stone inscription in front of Changu Narayan temple

Language spoken by Deo/Dev

• Mother tongue of Deo's is Maithili

• Maithili, an Eastern Indic language, is spoken in Mithila
• Maithili has previously been considered a dialect of both Hindi and Bengali
• Today Maithili, is recognized in the Eighth Schedule of Indian official languages
• Maithili sounds sweet and soft to outsiders, who often cannot tell whether an argument is taking place

• In southern districts of Mithila Angika is spoken

• Maithili (মৈথিলী Maithilī) is a language spoken in the eastern part of India, mainly in the Indian state of Bihar, and in the eastern Terai region of Nepal

• It is an offshoot of the Indo-Aryan languages, which are part of the Indo-Iranian, a branch of the Indo-European languages Linguists consider Maithili to be an Eastern Indic language, and thus a different language from Hindi, which is Central Indic in origin

• According to the 2001 census in India, 12,179,122 people speak Maithili, but various organizations have strongly argued that the actual number of Maithili speakers is much higher than the official data suggests
• SIL estimates it to be more than 35 Million

• In 2003, Maithili was included in the Eighth Schedule of the Indian Constitution, which now allows the language to be used in education, government, and other official contexts

• Maithili has a very rich literary and cultural heritage
• Maithili was traditionally written in the Maithili script (also known by the names Tirhuta and Mithilakshar) and Kaithi scrip Nowadays, Devanagari script is most commonly used

• An effort is underway to preserve the Maithili script and to develop it for use in digital media by encoding the script in the Unicode standard, for which proposals have been submitted

• The term Maithili comes from Mithila, which was an independent state in ancient times

• Mithila has a very important place in Hindu mythology, since it is regarded as the birth place of Goddess Sita, the daughter of King Janak of Mithila; who eventually gets married to Lord Rama

• The most famous literary figure in Maithili is the poet Vidyapati

  

  MAHAKABI VIDYAPATI

• He is credited for raising the importance of 'people's language', i.e. Maithili, in the official work of the state by influencing the Maharaja of Darbhanga with the quality of his poetry

• The state's official language used to be Sanskrit, which distanced common people from the state and its function

• The name Maithili is also one of the names of Sita, the consort of Rama

• The name Maithili is derived from the word Mithila, an ancient kingdom of which King Janaka was the ruler

• Maithili is also one of the names of Sita, the wife of King Rama and daughter of King Janaka
• It is a fact that scholars in Mithila used Sanskrit for their literary work and Maithili was the language of the common folk (Abahatta)
• The earliest work in Maithili appears to be Varna(n) Ratnakar by Jyotirishwar Thakur dated about 1324

Culture & Traditions Of Deo/Dev 

• The Mithila region is rich with culture and traditions
• People respect their parents, believe in peaceful life and have a strong belief in God

• They worship the goddess of Power Durga

• Every home of Mithila has own God or Goddess named Kuldevta

• They generally live in larger families
• The festivals that are widely celebrated are : Makar Sankranti, Basant Panchami, Shivratri, Holi, Ram Navami, New Year, Mesha Sankranti , Janaki Navami, Batsavitri, Madhushravani, Nagpanchami, Rakshabandhan, Krishna Janmashtami, Chauth Chandra, Durga Puja, Kojagara, Diwali, Bhatridwitiya, Chhathi, Akshya Navami, Devotthan Ekadashi, Sama Chakeba,Kartik Purnima, Vivaha Panchami, etc. in which some are specific in Mithila e.g.Chauth Chandra when Ganesh Chaturthi in Bhadrapad is celebrated rest of India) and Indra Puja in Ashwin Krishna Paksha and So Bhatridwitiya and Sama Chakeba in Kartik Shuklapaksha-are festivals for brothers and sisters apart from Rakhabandhan as in other parts of Indian subcontinent.