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| name = Janadeva Janaka<br />
| title = [[Janaka]]<br />
| successor = Dharmadhwaja<br />
| birth_name = Janadeva<br />
| birth_place = [[Mithila region]]<br />
| full name = King Janadeva Janaka<br />
| religion = [[Sanatana]] [[Hinduism]]<br />
| dynasty = Janaka<br />
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'''Janadeva Janaka''' (Sanskrit: जनदेव जनक) was the king of [[Mithila (region)|Mithila]] Kingdom in the [[Janaka]] Dynasty of [[Videha]] in the [[Indian subcontinent|Indian Subcontinent]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Mittal |first=J. P. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rrh4tY3v2A4C |title=History of Ancient India (A New Version) |date=2006 |publisher=Atlantic Publishers & Dist |isbn=978-81-269-0616-1 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Anonymous |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ygA2240G74kC&q=janadeva+janaka |title=The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa (Complete) |publisher=Library of Alexandria |isbn=978-1-4655-2637-3 |language=en}}</ref> In the [[Shanti Parva]] of Mahabharata, [[Bhishma]] had narrated the story of King Janadeva Janaka to [[Yudhishthira|Dharmaraj Yudhishthira]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Bedekar |first=V. M. |date=1957 |title=Studies in Sāṁkhya: The Teachings of Pañcaśikha in the Mahābhārata |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44082823 |journal=Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute |volume=38 |issue=3/4 |pages=233–244 |jstor=44082823 |issn=0378-1143}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=www.wisdomlib.org |date=2021-08-17 |title=Section CCXVIII [Mahabharata, English] |url=https://www.wisdomlib.org/hinduism/book/the-mahabharata-mohan/d/doc826176.html |access-date=2024-05-01 |website=www.wisdomlib.org |language=en}}</ref><br />
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== Etymology ==<br />
''Janadeva'' is a [[Sanskrit]] compound word composed of two words ''Jana'' and ''Deva''.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=www.wisdomlib.org |date=2019-02-19 |title=Janadeva, Jana-deva: 7 definitions |url=https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/janadeva#purana |access-date=2024-05-01 |website=www.wisdomlib.org |language=en}}</ref> ''Jana'' means people and ''Deva'' means lord. Therefore, the literal meaning of ''Janadeva'' is lord of people.<br />
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== Description ==<br />
In [[Shanti Parva]] of [[Mahabharata]], [[Bhishma]] told to [[Yudhishthira]] that once King ''Janadeva Janaka'' asked a philosophical question on salvation to the hundred [[acharya]]s in [[Court of King Janaka|his court]] but none of them could satisfactorily answer his questions about salvation.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Larson |first1=Gerald James |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bqr_AwAAQBAJ&q=janadeva+janaka |title=The Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies, Volume 4: Samkhya, A Dualist Tradition in Indian Philosophy |last2=Bhattacharya |first2=Ram Shankar |date=2014-07-14 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-1-4008-5353-3 |language=en}}</ref> Then a sage named as [[Panchashikha]] came to the court by chance advised the king about the means to attain salvation.<ref name=":0" /> The king got satisfied and impressed with the answer of the sage [[Panchashikha]], then the king appointed the sage [[Panchashikha]] as his teacher.<ref>{{Cite book |last=P C Ray |url=http://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.283205 |title=The Mahabharata Of Krishna Dwaipayana Vyara 1891 |date=1891}}</ref> The sage [[Panchashikha]] taught [[Brahmavidya|Brahman Vidya]] and [[Samkhya|Shamkhya]] philosophy to the king.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Aranya |first1=Hari Haranand |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xvOiFgm8Iw0C&q=%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B5+%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%95 |title=Patanjal Yogadarshan (Vyasbhashya, Uska Hindi Anuvad Tatha Suvishad Vyakhya) |last2=Bhattacharya (sampadak) |first2=Ram Shankar |date=2007 |publisher=Motilal Banarsidass Publisher |isbn=978-81-208-2255-9 |language=hi}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Vaidya |first=Chintaman Vinayak |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dmOUq73LZLgC&q=Panchashikha |title=Epic India, Or, India as Described in the Mahabharata and the Ramayana |date=2001 |publisher=Asian Educational Services |isbn=978-81-206-1564-9 |language=en}}</ref> It is said that once [[Mahavishnu]] in the guise of a [[Brahmin]] came to the King for testing, then being pleased with the king gave him some boons.{{fact|date=August 2024}}<br />
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== References ==<br />
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