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{{Infobox royalty<br />
| name = Vishwasa Devi<br />
| title = Queen of Mithila<br />
| reign = 1431 CE - 1443 CE<br />
| reign-type = Ruler<br />
| predecessor = [[Padmasimha]]<br />
| successor = Harasimha<br />
| birth_name = Vishwasa<br />
| birth_place = Mithila<br />
| spouse = Padmasimha<br />
| spouse-type = Husband<br />
| full name = Viśvasadevi<br />
| regnal name = Maharani Vishwasa Devi<br />
| occupation = *Queen<br />
*Ruler of Tirhut Sarkar<br />
*Scholar of [[Sanskrit literature]]<br />
| religion = [[Hinduism]]<br />
| royal house = Mithila Kingdom<br />
| dynasty = [[Oiniwar Dynasty]]<br />
}}<br />
'''Vishwasa Devi''' (Maithili: विश्वास देवी, Romanised: ''Viśvasadevi'') was the queen of the [[Videha|Mithila Kingdom]] in the [[Oiniwar dynasty|Oiniwar Dynasty]] during the 15th-century. She ascended the throne of the Mithila Kingdom after the death of the ''[[Padmasimha|King Padmasimha]]''. She ruled the kingdom for twelve years since 1431 CE to 1443 CE.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Jha |first=Makhan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A0i94Z5C8HMC&q=Lakhima |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=157 |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Choudhary |first=Rabindra Nath |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nmYeAAAAMAAJ |title=Political History of Khandavala Dynasity [sic] in Mithila, 1556-1793 |date=1987 |publisher=Capital Publishing House |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=Kāṇe |first=Pāṇḍuraṅga Vāmana |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E7bWAAAAMAAJ |title=History of Dharmaśāstra: (ancient and Mediæval Religious and Civil Law in India) |date=1975 |publisher=Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute |pages=814 |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite book |last=Jha |first=Arun Kumar |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NVtuAAAAMAAJ |title=Some Aspects of the Cultural History of Mithila: The Janaka Dynasty, the Karnātas & the Oinwāras |date=2005 |publisher=University Department of History and A.I.H.C. & Archaeology, T.M. Bhagalpur University |pages=27, 60 |language=en}}</ref> She was the tenth ruler in the Oiniwar Dynasty of the Kingdom.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Sircar |first=D. C. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m1JYwP5tVQUC&q=Bhairavasimha |title=Studies in Indian Coins |date=2005 |publisher=Motilal Banarsidass Publishers |isbn=978-81-208-2973-2 |pages=269 |language=en}}</ref> Apart from being the ruler of the kingdom, she was also an eminent scholar of the [[Sanskrit literature]].<ref name=":4">{{Cite web |last=www.wisdomlib.org |date=2022-03-17 |title=Contribution of Women to Sanskrit Literature |url=https://www.wisdomlib.org/history/compilation/triveni-journal/d/doc71234.html |access-date=2025-03-20 |website=www.wisdomlib.org |language=en}}</ref><br />
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== Later life ==<br />
Her names in different historical documents are written with slightly different spelling. They are ''Vishwasa Devi'', ''Viśvasadevi'', ''Visvasadevi'' and ''Viswavasa Devi''. She was married to the ''King Padmasimha'' of the Oiniwar Dynasty in Mithila. Padmasimha was the brother of the [[Shiva Simha Singh|King Shivasimha]] in Mithila. After the marriage with King Padmasimha, she became the queen of the kingdom. The king Padmasimha later died in 1431 CE without having a child. Since the king was childless so after the death of the king, the queen Vishwasa Devi took control on the territory and ascended the throne of the kingdom in 1431 CE. She ruled the kingdom for 12 years till 1443 CE.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" /><ref name=":0" /><ref name=":3" /> She was the second queen in the [[Oiniwar dynasty|Oiniwar Dynasty]] after the queen [[Lakhimadevi]], who ascended the throne of the kingdom and ruled the territory.<ref>{{Cite book |last=शर्म्मा |first=रामप्रकाश |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G7sBAAAAMAAJ |title=मिथिला का इतिहास |date=1979 |publisher=Kāmeśvarasiṃhadarabhaṅgāsaṃskr̥taviśvavidyālaya |language=hi}}</ref> <br />
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== Rule and legacy ==<br />
The queen Vishwasa Devi established a new village [[Bisaul|Visual]] in the kingdom after her name. Then she transferred the capital of the Mithila Kingdom from [[Padma Village|Padma]] to the newly established village Visual.<ref name=":0" /> <br />
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During her regime, she patronised the scholars in the kingdom. Her royal court became the centre for the gathering of eminent scholars just like the court of the [[Janaka|King Janaka]] in [[Ramayana]]. She organised a notable Yajna known as ''Chatuscharan Yajna'' at her royal court where large numbers of scholars gathered. In the Yajna, fourteen hundred [[Mīmāṃsā|Mimansa]] scholars alone were invited by the queen Vishwasa Devi.<ref name=":3" /> <br />
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The queen Vishwasa Devi also patronised the Maithil scholar [[Vidyapati]] at her royal court.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Gupta |first=Kamala |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vk8qAAAAYAAJ |title=Social Status of Hindu Women in Northern India, 1206-1707 A.D. |date=1987 |publisher=Inter-India Publications |isbn=978-81-210-0179-3 |pages=242 |language=en}}</ref> The Maithil scholar Vidyapati composed his literary work ''Saiva-Sarvasva-Sara'' on the behest of the queen Vishwasa Devi, which gives account of the histories of the kings of the Oiniwar Dynasty. The literary work Saiva-Sarvasva-Sara is attributed to the queen Vishwasa Devi and deals with the matters of worship of [[Shiva|Lord Shiva]]. Similarly Vidyapati also composed another literary work attributed to the queen Vishwasa Devi known as ''Gangāvākyāvalī'', which deals with the rituals and practices related to worship of the holy river [[Ganges]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Banerji |first=Sures Chandra |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hAZ0CAt03_QC&q=padmasimha |title=A Brief History of Dharmaśāstra |date=1999 |publisher=Abhinav Publications |isbn=978-81-7017-370-0 |pages=50 |language=en}}</ref> <br />
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Vishwasa Devi as a queen was a powerful leader of men. Similarly as a scholar she was a champion of defeating many great scholars of her age. She was also compared with the [[Upanishads|Upanashadic]] woman scholar [[Brahmavadini|Brahmvadini]] [[Gārgī Vāchaknavī|Gargi Vachaknavi]] for her scholarly wisdom.<ref name=":4" /><br />
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