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Bhanubhakta Acharya

1814 - 1868

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Bhanubhakta Acharya (Nepali: भानुभक्त आचार्य) (1814—1868 CE) (1871—1925 BS) was a Nepali writer, poet, and translator. He is widely regarded as the first poet in the Nepali language, for which he was conferred with the title of "Aadikabi": literally, "the first poet". He is best known for translating the epic Ramayana from Sanskrit to Nepali for the first time. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bhanubhakta Acharya has received more than 609,771 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Bhanubhakta Acharya is the 1,765th most popular writer (up from 2,603rd in 2019), the 13th most popular biography from Nepal (up from 18th in 2019) and the most popular Nepalese Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 610k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.18

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.22

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.66

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Bhanubhakta Acharya has had the most page views in the with 96,095 views, followed by Nepali (43,566), and Hindi (24,194). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Bhojpuri (555.78%), Western Punjabi (316.48%), and Kannada (248.48%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Bhanubhakta Acharya ranks 1,765 out of 7,302. Before him are Anne Perry, Suzanne Collins, Tavo Burat, Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, Raymond E. Feist, and Adam Zagajewski. After him are Herbjørg Wassmo, Vasily Shukshin, Friedrich Rückert, Joseph Joubert, Magnús Scheving, and Ted Hughes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1814, Bhanubhakta Acharya ranks 23. Before him are Pierre-Jules Hetzel, Duchess Helene of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Princess Marie Luise Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel, Heinrich Geißler, Alexander Cunningham, and Sheridan Le Fanu. After him are Princess Maria Antonia of the Two Sicilies, Eduard Zeller, Eugène Charles Catalan, Rasoherina, Théodolinde de Beauharnais, and Kamehameha III. Among people deceased in 1868, Bhanubhakta Acharya ranks 22. Before him are Kondō Isami, Eléonore Denuelle de La Plaigne, James Brooke, Christian Friedrich Schönbein, Tewodros II, and François-Édouard Picot. After him are Carlo Matteucci, Rasoherina, Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, Ferenc Gyulay, and Nakano Takeko.

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In Nepal

Among people born in Nepal, Bhanubhakta Acharya ranks 13 out of 59. Before him are Mahapajapati Gotami (-600), Prithvi Narayan Shah (1723), Birendra of Nepal (1945), Gyanendra of Nepal (1947), Chandra Bahadur Dangi (1939), and Ram Baran Yadav (1948). After him are Janaka (null), Bidhya Devi Bhandari (1961), Anuruddha (-450), Ram Chandra Poudel (1944), Suman Pokhrel (1967), and Pushpa Kamal Dahal (1954).

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Among WRITERS In Nepal

Among writers born in Nepal, Bhanubhakta Acharya ranks 1. After him are Suman Pokhrel (1967), Laxmi Prasad Devkota (1909), and Sanu Sharma (null).

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