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the performance of an original drama entitled ‘Dhurta samagama ’ by Jyotirlsvara 
Kavi Sekharacarya. Harisiiiha invaded Nepal, and since then the rajas ol his family 
kept political connections with that kingdom, till about 1400 A. D. the descendants 
of Harisiiiha became, by marriage, the rulers of Nepal, and lost their position in 
Mithila by the rise of the Brahmana Rajas under Kamesa. The kings of Mithila 
always patronised Sanskrit and vernacular literature ; and it is possible to compile 
a connected literary history of Mithila from Nanya Deva up to very recent times. 
