In the Dhanusha District of Nepal, Hindus believe one can find such a place, the city Janakpur, known today as capital of the country’s Madhesh Province, but said to have once been the capital of a great and ancient kingdom called Mithila.Įnclosed on the north by the Himalayas, on the east by the Kosi river, on the south by the Ganges, and the west by the Gandaki river, Mithila, as conveyed in Hindu texts, was ruled by the Vaidehi dynasty, of which the kings held the title Janak, hence the name of its capital, Janakpur.Īs recounted by Richard Burghart in his 1978 essay The Disappearance and Reappearance of Janakpur, in the 23rd generation of this dynasty, Mithila became afflicted by a great drought, and so the Janak of that time, King Seeradwaja, desperate to gain the blessings of Indra, the god connected with rain, decided to perform a great sacrifice in his honor. Sometimes, however, there are places we encounter that seem to defy this truth, that continue to persist in the face of time’s inexhaustible waves, manifesting in more than one era for eyes of multiple generations to behold. It is the great subduer, described as being undefeated in its onslaught of change, bringing all things to an inexorable end. “Time is inevitable” - a truth we often read in books, hear in movies, and see play out around us in unforgiving fashion.
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