WRITER

Bhāsa

200 - 300

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Bhāsa is one of the earliest Indian playwrights in Sanskrit, predating Kālidasa. Estimates of his floruit range from the 4th century BCE to the 4th century CE; the thirteen plays attributed to him are commonly dated closer to the first or second century CE. Bhasa's plays had been lost for centuries until the manuscripts were rediscovered in 1910 by the Indian scholar Ganapati Shastri. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bhāsa has received more than 505,040 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Bhāsa is the 1,103rd most popular writer (down from 820th in 2019).

Memorability Metrics

  • 510k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.95

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.51

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.39

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Svapnavasavadattam
1960
Pratijñāyaugandharāyaṇaṃ
1923
Pratimānāṭaka
Sanskrit drama
Sanskrit play, with Sanskrit and Bengali commentary, based on Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki.
1916
Svapnavāsavadatta
Translation of Sanskrit play Svapnavāsavadatta by Bhāsa.
1913
Pañcarātraṃ
1917
The Madhyama vyāyoga
Classical Sanskrit play; includes Gaṅgā commentary.
1913
Svapnavasavadattam
1960
Pañcarātraṃ
1917
Svapnavāsavadatta
Translation of Sanskrit play Svapnavāsavadatta by Bhāsa.
1913
Pratimānāṭaka
Sanskrit drama
Sanskrit play, with Sanskrit and Bengali commentary, based on Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki.
1916
The Madhyama vyāyoga
Classical Sanskrit play; includes Gaṅgā commentary.
1913
Pratijñāyaugandharāyaṇaṃ
1923

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Bhāsa ranks 1,103 out of 7,302. Before him are Alfred Brehm, Cees Nooteboom, Yosano Akiko, John William Polidori, Leonid Andreyev, and Andrei Bely. After him are Bernard Cornwell, Robert Merle, Hélène Cixous, Claudius Aelianus, Tahar Ben Jelloun, and Velimir Khlebnikov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 200, Bhāsa ranks 22. Before him are Sasan, Paul of Samosata, Tatiana of Rome, Xiahou Yuan, Xu Chu, and Artabanus IV of Parthia. After him are Claudius Aelianus, Yu Jin, Lucius Artorius Castus, Vologases VI, Gao Shun, and Artemidorus. Among people deceased in 300, Bhāsa ranks 5. Before him are Diophantus, Saint Christopher, Sasan, and Saturnin. After him are Meng Huo, Ma Dai, Sabellius, Achilles Tatius, Minervina, Xenophon of Ephesus, and Saint Martial.

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