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Gajendra Thakur (born 1971) (गजेन्द्र ठाकुर; গজেন্দ্র ঠাকুর; ગજેન્દ્ર ઠાકુર; ଗଜେନ୍ଦ୍ର ଠାକୁର; ਗਜੇਨ੍ਦ੍ਰ ਠਾਕੁਰ; గజేన్ద్ర ఠాకుర; கஜேந்த்ர டாகுர; ಗಜೇನ್ದ್ರ ಠಾಕುರ; ഗജേന്ദ്ര ഠാകുര) is an Indian author. He writes in the Maithili language, a language spoken in Northern Bihar (of India) and South-Eastern Nepal. He is an author, lexicographer, historian (of Mithila- ancient Videha and of ''Maithili''); and palaeographer, he has deciphered ancient and medieval palm leaf inscriptions in Tirhuta script of ''Maithili'' Language (Mithilakshar script).〔(गजेन्द्र ठाकुर ) ' ''maithililekhaksangh''- Maithili Language Author's Site''.〕〔(Gajendra Thakur re-written in English ) 'Videha''- Ist Maithili Fortnightly e Magazine ISSN 2229-547X in Maithili language and simultaneously in Devanagari, Tirhuta and Braille scripts'']〕 These panjis are genealogical records of Maithil Brahmin community of ''Mithila'' region (presently North Bihar, India; and South-West Nepal) and contain details of around 100 inter-caste marriages. Besides it provides written historical records of people and personalities, hitherto considered mythical ones. Besides he deciphered scripts inscribed on temples/ dilapidated buildings throughout the length and breadth of ''Mithila''. He has also compiled an English-Maithili Computer Dictionary (Shruti Publication, Delhi 2009 with a preface by Prof. Udaya Narayana singh, the then Director of Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, India). He has helped in preparing Unicode application for Mithilakshar (Tirhuta) script.〔ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2 N4035 L2/11-175,Proposal to Encode the Maithili Script in ISO/IEC 10646 Anshuman Pandey,http://anshumanpandey.com/ Department of History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A., 2011-05-05, 5 May 2011 http://std.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC2/WG2/docs/n4035.pdf Figure 11: Excerpt from a Maithili e-journal published as PDF (from Videha 2011: 22; Videha: A fortnightly Maithili e-journal. Issue 80 (15 April 2011), Gajendra Thakur (). http://www.videha.co.in/ ."Gajendra Thakur of New Delhi graciously met with me and corresponded at length about Maithili, offered valuable specimens of Maithili manuscripts, printed books, and other records, and provided feedback regarding requirements for the encoding of Maithili in the UCS."〕 His ''Kurukshetram Antarmanak''(Shruti Publication, Delhi 2009 with a preface by Prof. Udaya Narayana singh, the then Director of Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, India) (in seven volumes) and ''Videha'' (in 127 volumes) changed the literary scene "in every genre" of Maithili language. His ''Maithili-English'' dictionary 〔Maithili English Dictionary, Gajendra Thakur, Nagendra Kumar Jha, Panjikar Vidyanand Jha, 2009,Shruti Publication, Delhi ISBN 978-81-907729-2-1〕 (Shruti Publication, Delhi 2009 with a preface by Prof. Udaya Narayana singh, the then Director of Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, India)has the largest collection of Maithili words. His ''English-Maithili'' Dictionary 〔English Maithili Dictionary, Gajendra Thakur, Nagendra Kumar Jha, Panjikar Vidyanand Jha, 2009,Shruti Publication, Delhi ISBN 978-81-907729-3-8〕 is only such dictionary available in Maithili.〔(Govind Jha,(page 127) Navarambh, Patna 2010 ) 'It is unique as it uses IPA and Mithilakshar '']〕〔(Prasad, Maithilik Shabdkosha, Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL), Mysore, India's Seminar, 2010 ) 'It has been compiled on the basis of scientific principles '']〕〔(Prof. Udaya Narayana Singh, director, CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF INDIAN LANGUAGES (CIIL), Mysore, 2009. ) http://www.ciil.org/)] 'To that extent, this dictionary of Maithili which will be available in both web and printed version will be a significant contribution by the compiler. Gajendra Thakur and the publishers deserve all commendation from the Maithili speech community in particular, and from the scholars in translation in general.", Again Prof. Udaya Narayan Singh in the editorial of Mithila Darshan, May–June 2009, Year 57, issue 2, discusses Unicode and Mithilakshar and contribution of Videha regarding this '']〕 ==Early life== Gajendra Thakur (born 30 March 1971, Bhagalpur, Bihar, India) is basically from Mehath village . His father, late Kripanand Thakur, was a Civil Engineer and mother, Lakshmi Thakur, a housewife. Gajendra Thakur got his primary education from his village school. Later he moved from town to town as his father was in a transferable job. He suffered a major accident in 2000 and remained on crutches for almost one and a half years. This time period he used in the pursuit of his interest in ancient scripts inscribed on palm leaves. He toured far and wide; and read and deciphered scripts inscribed on temples/ dilapidated buildings throughout the length and breadth of ''Mithila''. His stories and poems deal with the problems of native and migrant Maithils of ''Mithila''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gajendra Thakur」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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