विदेह a.
1 Bodiless; incorporeal.
2 Trunkless.
−हाः (m. pl.) N. of a country, the ancient Mithilā (see App. III.); R. 11. 36, 12. 26.
2 The natives of this country.
−हः
1 The district Videha.
2 N. of Janaka.
−हा The same as विदेह.
विदेह N. of a country lying to the north-east of Magadha. Its capital Mithilā is the same as Janakapur in Nepal north of Madhuvāṇī. Videha must have covered, in ancient times, besides a portion of Nepal, all such places as Sītāmāri, Sītākuṇḍa, or the northern part of the old district of Trihut and the north-western portion of Champaran.