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{{Short description|King of Oiniwar Dynasty in Mithila}}
{{Infobox royalty
| name = Bhairavasimha
| title = King of Mithila
| predecessor = Dhirasimha
| successor = Rupanarayana Ramabhadrasimha
| birth_name = Bhairava
| birth_place = Mithila
| full name = Bhairavasimhadeva
| regnal name = Maharajadhiraja Bhairavasimhadeva
| house = Mithila Kingdom
| house-type = Kingdom
| father = [[King Narasimha]]
| occupation = King of Mithila
| religion = [[Hinduism]]
| type = Ruler
| royal house = Tirhut Sarkar
| dynasty = [[Oiniwar Dynasty]]
}}
'''Bhairavasimha''' ([[Maithili language|Maithili]]: भैरव सिंह) was the fourteenth king of the [[Oiniwar dynasty|Oiniwar Dynasty]] in the [[Videha|Mithila Kingdom]]. He ascended the throne of the kingdom around 1475–76 CE after the ''King Dhirasimha''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Manish_dutta |url=http://archive.org/details/dandavivekaofvardhamanaupadhyayatrans |title=Dandaviveka Of Vardhamana Upadhyaya ( Trans)}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Jha |first=Makhan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A0i94Z5C8HMC&q=Kameshwar+ |title=Anthropology of Ancient Hindu Kingdoms: A Study in Civilizational Perspective |date=1997 |publisher=M.D. Publications Pvt. Ltd. |isbn=978-81-7533-034-4 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Deo |first=Kamal |date=2006 |title=Society in the Kirtilata of Vidayapati |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/44147948 |journal=Proceedings of the Indian History Congress |volume=67 |pages=286–291 |jstor=44147948 |issn=2249-1937}}</ref>

== Early life ==
Bhairavasimha was born in the royal family of the Oiniwar Dynasty in the Mithila Kingdom. He was the son of the ''King Narasimha''. He was a [[Maithil Brahmin]] and belonged to [[Kashyapa|Kashyap]] [[Gotra]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Choudhary |first=Radhakrishna |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C0f898HDLAYC&q=bhairavasimha |title=A Survey of Maithili Literature |date=1976 |publisher=Ram Vilas Sahu |isbn=978-93-80538-36-5 |language=en}}</ref>

== Rule ==
According to [[George Abraham Grierson|George Grierson]], the King Bhairavasimha shortly after taking the control on the throne of the kingdom, declared the kingdom of Mithila as independent sovereign state. He issued silver coins to declare the independent sovereign status of the Mithila Kingdom. After the King Shivasimha, he was the second king of the Oiniwar Dynasty in Mithila who issued sovereign silver coins of the Mithila Kingdom to declare its independent sovereignty.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kumar |first=Arun |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jyBmDwAAQBAJ&q=%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%BE+%E0%A4%AD%E0%A5%88%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%B5+%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%B9 |title=Grierson : Bhasha Aur Sahitya Chintan |date=2018 |publisher=Vani Prakashan |isbn=978-93-87889-33-0 |language=hi}}</ref> He established his capital at a village known as ''[[Bhaur Gram|Varuar]]'' in the ''Bachhaur pargana''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Chaudhary |first=Radhakrishna |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JO4toCiJ2ecC&q=%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE+%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%87+%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%BE+%E0%A4%AD%E0%A5%88%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%B5+%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%B9 |title=Mithilak Itihas |publisher=Ram Vilas Sahu |isbn=978-93-80538-28-0 |pages=262 |language=hi}}</ref>
[[File:Silve coin of Bhairavasimha.png|thumb|Image of the '''Silver coins''' issued by the King Bhairavasimha for declaring sovereignty of his kingdom ]]

Bhairavasimha was a politically adept king. He had friendly relations with the king of [[Sri Lanka|Lanka]]. There was an exchange of envoys between the two countries.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Mishra |first=Indira |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QXFuAAAAMAAJ |title=Aspects of political ideas and institutions in medieval Mithila |date=2004 |publisher=Baseline Publishers & Printers |pages=53 |language=hi}}</ref>

== Patronage to Vedic learning ==
During the reigns of the King Bhairavasimha, a famous Yajna Tank was established at Jarahattiya near the ''Tarsarai railway station'', where 1400 ''Mimansakas'' were living for conducting Yajna and teaching of [[Mīmāṃsā|Mimansa]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Chaudhary P. C. Roy |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.206891 |title=Bihar District Gazetteers Darbhanga |date=1964}}</ref> Similarly, at his court there was the eminent [[Naiyayika]] called as [[Pakshadhara Mishra]]. He was the then head teacher of the Nyaya Shastra in the kingdom.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Choudhary |first=Indra Kumar |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jCQaAAAAIAAJ |title=Some Aspects of Social Life of Medieval Mithila, 1350-1750 A.D.: With a Special Reference to Contemporary Literatures |date=1988 |publisher=Kashi Prasad Jayaswal Research Institute |pages=101 |language=en}}</ref> The famous logicians [[Vasudeva Sarvabhauma]] and [[Raghunatha Siromani]] of [[Nadia district|Nadia]] in [[Bengal]] came to Mithila for learning Nyaya Shastra from the teacher Pakshadhara Mishra.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kochhar |first=Rajesh |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sto6EAAAQBAJ&q=pakshadhara+mishra |title=Sanskrit and the British Empire |date=2021-09-02 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-1-000-43553-5 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Pakshadhara Mishra {{!}} Indian philosopher {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Pakshadhara-Mishra |access-date=2025-04-20 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}</ref>

During his reign, [[Vardhamana Upadhyaya]] was appointed as the judge of the court.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Manish_dutta |url=http://archive.org/details/dandavivekaofvardhamanaupadhyayatrans |title=Dandaviveka Of Vardhamana Upadhyaya ( Trans)}}</ref>

== References ==
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[[Category:15th-century Indian monarchs]]
[[Category:Monarchs of Mithila]]

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Mir Hashim Ali at 15:58, 26 March 2026