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Jyotirishvara Thakur
Jyotirishvara Thakur was a Maithili poet and scholar at the court of Harisimhadeva, last king of the Karnat dynasty of Mithila, in the early 14th century. His Varna Ratnakara, an encyclopedic collection of descriptions, is one of the earliest prose works in Maithili and in any modern Indo-Aryan language. He also wrote plays and works in Sanskrit.
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