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Bhāsa

200 - 300

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Bhāsa is one of the earliest and most celebrated Indian playwrights in Sanskrit, predating Kālidasa. His name was already well-known by the 1st century BCE and he belongs to the late-Mauryan (322-184 BCE) period at the earliest, but the thirteen plays attached to his name are commonly dated closer to the first or second century CE. His plays had been lost for centuries until the manuscripts were rediscovered in 1913 by the Indian scholar Ganapati Shastri. Bhāsa had previously only been known from mentions in other works, like the Kavyamimamsa on poetics from 880–920 AD. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bhāsa has received more than 461,949 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Bhāsa is the 821st most popular writer (up from 1,606th in 2019).

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  • 460k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 62.40

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.11

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.03

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Bhāsa ranks 821 out of 5,755Before him are Stesichorus, Zhang Sanfeng, V. S. Naipaul, Aelius Donatus, Bernard-Henri Lévy, and Pope Dionysius of Alexandria. After him are Viktor Shklovsky, Laura de Noves, Frank Wedekind, Ban Gu, Ibn al-Jawzi, and Madame Roland.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 200, Bhāsa ranks 17Before him are Pope Stephen I, Celsus, Marcus Claudius Tacitus, Alexander of Aphrodisias, Artemidorus, and Wei Yan. After him are Zhang Jue, Xiahou Yuan, Sasan, Artabanus IV of Parthia, Claudius Aelianus, and Lucius Artorius Castus. Among people deceased in 300, Bhāsa ranks 3Before him are Diophantus and Saint Christopher. After him are Sasan, Meng Huo, Saturnin, Achilles Tatius, Sabellius, Ma Dai, Xenophon of Ephesus, Marcia Otacilia Severa, and Saint Martial.

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