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{{Short description|First capital of Oiniwar Dynasty in Mithila}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2025}}
{{Use Indian English|date=August 2025}}
{{Infobox settlement
| name = Oini
| official_name = Waini
| native_name = ओईनी
| native_name_lang = mai
| other_name = Vaini
| settlement_type = Village
| subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = {{flag|India}}
| subdivision_type1 = State
| subdivision_name1 = Bihar
| subdivision_type2 = Region
| subdivision_name2 = Mithila region
| subdivision_type3 = District
| subdivision_name3 = [[Samastipur district|Samastipur]]
| subdivision_type4 = Block
| subdivision_name4 = Pusa
| founder = King Oini Thakur
| population_demonym = [[Maithil]]
| footnotes = Origin village of Oiniwar Dynasty
}}

'''Oini''' ([[Maithili language|Maithili]]: ओइनी) is a village in the Pusa block of the [[Samastipur district]] in [[Mithila (region)|Mithila region]] of [[Bihar]], [[India]]. It is an important village in the history of the Mithila region in the [[Indian subcontinent]]. It was the origin village of the [[Oiniwar dynasty|Oiniwar Dynasty]] in the ancient [[Videha|Mithila Kingdom]]. The historical village is presently known as '''Waini'''. It was established as the capital of the Oiniwar Dynasty by the first ''King Oini Thakur'' of the dynasty in the Mithila Kingdom.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Mishra |first=Vijayakanta |date=1953 |title=Chronology of the Oiniwara Dynasty of Mithila |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44303873 |journal=Proceedings of the Indian History Congress |volume=16 |pages=200–210 |jstor=44303873 |issn=2249-1937}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Jha |first=Makhan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A0i94Z5C8HMC&q=oini+village+mithila |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 |pages=56 |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite news |title=Hindustan Special: जहां कभी सजता था राजा शिव का दरबार, अब सन्नाटे के सिवाय |url=https://www.livehindustan.com/bihar/story-hindustan-special-now-nothing-but-silence-where-king-shiva-darbar-used-to-held-with-poet-vidyapati-8400342.html |work=Hindustan}}</ref>

== History ==
According to the historian ''Makhan Jha'', there was a great scholar named ''Nath Thakur'' at the court of a [[Karnats of Mithila|Karnat]] king in Mithila. It is said that, for his scholarship he was gifted a village of name Oini by the king in ''daan'' (donation). Those days there was a tradition that a person rewarded with a gift of village by the king was usually came to be known after the name of that village. Therefore, the scholar Nath Thakur was also called as ''Oini Thakur''. Later after the fall of [[Karnats of Mithila|Karnat Dynasty]] in Mithila, the scholar Oini Thakur became the ruler of the region. He established the [[Oiniwar dynasty|Oiniwar Dynasty]] and became the first king from the Oiniwar Dynasty in Mithila.<ref name=":1" /> During the early period of the Oiniwar Dynasty, Oini was the court of the kingdom of Mithila.<ref name=":0" />

The ruins of the court of the then kingdom still exists in the form of [[Dih (archaeology)|dih]] at the village. Nowadays the remains of the dih is found covered with bushes and trees. The ruins of the court is known as ''Waini Dih''. In the recent period, some youths of the village established idol of [[Bhagavati|Goddess Bhagwati]] at the dih and started worship there.<ref name=":0" />

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[[Category:Villages in Samastipur district]]
[[Category:Capitals of Mithila]]

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