It highlights Mithila as the birthplace of Goddess Sita, the wife of Lord Rama, and a place of knowledge and divine favor.
It was later translated in Maithili language and composed in Mithilakshara scripts by Pandit Jata Thakur, possibly during 18 century CE.
Later it was translated in Hindi by Dharmnath Sharma and published by Kameshwar Singh Darbhanga Sanskrit University in an edited-revised form based on an old manuscript.
[1] Similarly Pandit Lal Das composed his first composition in Maithili language which is an epic poem titled Mithila Mahatmya.
[3][4] In 2021, Dhruv Rai, the associate professor of Yajnavalkya Lakshminarayan Vidyapeeth, Matihani, has translated the text Mithila Mahatmya into Nepali language.