Gautam Ashram

Gautam Ashram ( Sanskrit: गौतम आ म ) was a gurukul of the ancient Indian philosopher
Gautama.[1] It is located at the west bank of Khiroi river in Brahmpur village of Jale block of
Darbhanga district in Bihar. It is only at a seven kilometres distance from Kamtaul railway
station.

Gautam Ashram

गौतम आ म

Monastery information

Established 8th - 7th BCE

Dedicated to Nyaya Shastra

People

Founder(s) Aksapada Gautama

Site

Location Ahilya Sthan, Darbhanga, Mithila

Country India

Other information Affiliation : Ancient Mithila University

Background
It is believed that Aksapada Gautama wrote his famous book Nyaya Shastra at this place. There
is also a very famous pond known as Gautam Kund, where Gautam Rishi took his bath daily.[2]
Aksapada Gautama was the Acharya of the Ancient Mithila University.[3] He taught Nyaya
Shastra to his disciples. So this place was also a Gurukul of the Ancient Mithila University.
Nearby the ashram, there is Ahilya Sthan related to Ahilya. Ahilya was the wife of Gautam Rishi.
Gautam Ashram and Ahilya Sthan have a great importance in the history of ancient
Mithila.[4][5][6][7]

Seven Days Conference in the Ashram

A very famous conference of Philosophical discussion and debate was held by Aksapada
Gautama at his Ashram. He was the Kulpati of his Ashram. The scholars and Kulpaties of
different Ashrams from different parts of Mithila and outside Mithila region gathered here to
deliver lectures and participate in discussion on the knotty problem of the day, spiritualism and
many mysteries of the nature. Scholars and Kulpaties of different Ashrams brought hundreds of
new books on spiritualism and philosophies. Aksapada Gautama was very curious to copy all
these books. He copied some of them. But he was very busy in welcoming the Scholars and
Kulpaties of different Ashrams who came there, so his entrusted the task of copying the books
to the Acharyas and Brahmcharies of his own Ashram. Seerdhawaja Janaka, the Emperor of
Mithila and Devraj Indra also arrived in this conference. Seerdhawaja Janaka was also the
Kuladhipati of all the Kulpaties of the Ashrams in his kingdom. He ensured to Aksapada
Gautama for the funding and security of the Ashram. Then the Ashram was decorated very
beautiful to welcome Devraj Indra.[8]

References

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heritage/) . Retrieved 2021-11-19.

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B7%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A6) . m.bharatdiscovery.org (in Hindi). Retrieved 2021-11-19.

3. Chaudhary P. C. Roy (1964). Bihar District Gazetteers Darbhanga (https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2

015.206891) .

4. "गौतम आ म से नकली थी यायशा क पहली गंगा" (https://www.livehindustan.com/bihar/darbhanga/story-gau

tam-ashram-was-originally-from-the-first-ganga-of-jurisprudence-1902985.html) . Hindustan (in Hindi).
Retrieved 2021-11-19.
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adevata.com/temple/gautam-ashram-brahampurdarbhanga-bihar/) . Retrieved 2021-11-19.

. नवभारतटाइ स.कॉम (2018-07-20). "इस मं दर क पुजारी है म हला, भगवान राम के चरण से यहां आ था चम कार" (https://n
avbharattimes.indiatimes.com/astro/dharam-karam/religion-and-spiritualism/indian-only-temple-where-
woman-perform-a-priest-role-darbhanga-temple-of-ahilya-44712/) . नवभारत टाइ स (in Hindi). Retrieved
2021-11-19.

7. "सड़क नमाण के लए मु य अ भयंता को ामीण ने रोका" (https://www.jagran.com/bihar/darbhanga-dddd-dddd-21

201986.html) . Dainik Jagran (in Hindi). Retrieved 2021-11-19.

. Kohli, Narendra (2016-11-21). Initiation (https://books.google.com/books?id=MBqJDQAAQBAJ) .

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