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Ajatashatru

500 BC - 460 BC

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Ajatasattu (Pāli Ajātasattu) or Ajatashatru (Sanskrit Ajātaśatru) in Buddhist tradition, or Kunika (Kūṇika) and Kuniya (Kūṇiya) in the Jain histories, (reigned c. 492 to 460 BCE, or c. 405 to 373 BCE) was one of the most important kings of the Haryanka dynasty of Magadha in East India. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ajatashatru has received more than 1,403,335 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Ajatashatru is the 4,202nd most popular politician (down from 2,182nd in 2019), the 135th most popular biography from India (down from 79th in 2019) and the 40th most popular Indian Politician.

Ajatashatru is most famous for murdering his father to gain the throne of the kingdom.

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ajatashatru ranks 4,202 out of 19,576. Before him are Stephen II, Ban of Bosnia, Ahmet Tevfik Pasha, Jani Beg, Zumbi, Hussein-Ali Montazeri, and Tonyukuk. After him are Elisabeth of the Palatinate, Peter II of Sicily, Ladislaus Hunyadi, José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, Yoav Galant, and Ny-Hor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 500 BC, Ajatashatru ranks 27. Before him are Polygnotus, Archelaus, Eubulides, Fan Li, Parysatis, and Alcamenes. After him are Cratinus, Alcetas II of Macedon, Perdiccas II of Macedon, Psammuthes, Parrhasius, and Anytus. Among people deceased in 460 BC, Ajatashatru ranks 4. Before him are Pāṇini, Meton of Athens, and Mnesikles. After him are Parrhasius, Hippo, Paeonius, Pharnabazus II, Diagoras of Rhodes, Telesilla, Sophron, and Agatharchus.

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In India

Among people born in India, Ajatashatru ranks 135 out of 1,861. Before him are Lakshmi Mittal (1950), Dayananda Saraswati (1824), Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1918), Abul A'la Maududi (1903), Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (1883), and Gangubai Kothewali (1939). After him are Bharata Muni (-1000), Anna Mani (1918), Periyar E. V. Ramasamy (1879), Muhammad bin Tughluq (1290), Ghiyas ud din Balban (1200), and Vidyapati (1352).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Ajatashatru ranks 40. Before him are Droupadi Murmu (1958), Chandragupta II (400), Sambhaji (1657), Vishvamitra (-2000), Siraj ud-Daulah (1733), and Dadabhai Naoroji (1825). After him are Periyar E. V. Ramasamy (1879), Muhammad bin Tughluq (1290), Ghiyas ud din Balban (1200), Henry McMahon (1862), Chandra Shekhar Azad (1906), and Bahadur Shah I (1643).

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