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Akka Mahadevi

1130 - 1101

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Akka Mahadevi (c. 1130–1160) was an early poet of Kannada literature and a prominent member of the Lingayatism founded in the 12th century. Her 430 vachanas (a form of spontaneous mystical poems), and the two short writings called Mantrogopya and the Yogangatrividh are considered her known contributions to Kannada literature. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Akka Mahadevi has received more than 1,094,001 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Akka Mahadevi is the 1,278th most popular writer (up from 1,476th in 2019).

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Akka Mahadevi ranks 1,278 out of 7,302. Before her are Hayim Nahman Bialik, Marcus Minucius Felix, Robert Sheckley, Chūya Nakahara, Siegfried Kracauer, and Matthias Flacius. After her are Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Antipater of Sidon, Paul Scarron, James Brendan Connolly, and Josef Čapek.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1130, Akka Mahadevi ranks 11. Before her are Saint Rosalia, Géza II of Hungary, Toghrul, Rashid ad-Din Sinan, Benjamin of Tudela, and Charles VII of Sweden. After her are Magnus II of Sweden, Theobald V, Count of Blois, Nicholas of Verdun, Beatrice of Rethel, Constantine Manasses, and Eustace IV, Count of Boulogne. Among people deceased in 1101, Akka Mahadevi ranks 8. Before her are Roger I of Sicily, Bruno of Cologne, Su Shi, John Skylitzes, Hugh, Count of Vermandois, and Conrad II of Italy. After her are Emperor Daozong of Liao, Su Song, Welf I, Duke of Bavaria, Vseslav of Polotsk, Al-Musta'li, and Urraca of Zamora.

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