Dr. Jayakanta Mishra passes away on 3rd february 2009 at 7 pm .He was 87,

the detailed news with rare photographs can be seen at the below link,

 

http://maithilaurmithila.blogspot.com/2009/02/blog-post_03.html 

 

Dr. Mishra was born in 1922 and besides two volumes of Maithili English dictionary wrote history of maithili literature, folk literature of mithila and brought critical editions of Kirtaniya Dramas.

The two volumes of Dictionary by Jayakanta Mishra included maithili words in mithilakshara and in phonetic english- and had been a source of inspiration for future generation lexicographers.Based on Videha database 16 volume Maithili-English dictionary by Gajendra Thakur, Nagendra Kumar Jha and Panjikar Vidyanand Jha includes Words and meanings both in International phonetic roman and mithilakshara, the ist volume is being brought out this month. The series would be dedicated to Deenbandhu Jha, Jaykanta Mishra and Govind Jha.

 

Dr. Jayakanta mishra would always remain in our hearts.

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