200 - 300
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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Among writers, Bhāsa ranks 821 out of 5,755. Before 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.
630 BC - 555 BC
HPI: 62.45
Rank: 815
1200 - 1301
HPI: 62.44
Rank: 816
1932 - 2018
HPI: 62.43
Rank: 817
320 - 380
HPI: 62.43
Rank: 818
1948 - Present
HPI: 62.42
Rank: 819
190 - 264
HPI: 62.42
Rank: 820
200 - 300
HPI: 62.40
Rank: 821
1893 - 1984
HPI: 62.35
Rank: 822
1310 - 1348
HPI: 62.35
Rank: 823
1864 - 1918
HPI: 62.34
Rank: 824
32 - 92
HPI: 62.33
Rank: 825
1116 - 1200
HPI: 62.32
Rank: 826
1754 - 1793
HPI: 62.32
Rank: 827
Among people born in 200, Bhāsa ranks 17. Before 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 3. Before 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.
200 - 257
HPI: 66.70
Rank: 11
200 - Present
HPI: 65.95
Rank: 12
200 - 276
HPI: 64.85
Rank: 13
200 - 215
HPI: 64.71
Rank: 14
200 - 200
HPI: 62.74
Rank: 15
200 - 234
HPI: 62.57
Rank: 16
200 - 300
HPI: 62.40
Rank: 17
200 - 184
HPI: 62.06
Rank: 18
200 - 219
HPI: 61.68
Rank: 19
200 - 300
HPI: 61.37
Rank: 20
200 - 224
HPI: 59.94
Rank: 21
200 - 235
HPI: 59.86
Rank: 22
200 - 200
HPI: 59.65
Rank: 23
201 - 300
HPI: 75.97
Rank: 1
220 - 300
HPI: 74.58
Rank: 2
200 - 300
HPI: 62.40
Rank: 3
200 - 300
HPI: 61.37
Rank: 4
101 - 300
HPI: 60.63
Rank: 5
300 - 300
HPI: 60.56
Rank: 6
200 - 300
HPI: 59.44
Rank: 7
200 - 300
HPI: 59.30
Rank: 8
183 - 300
HPI: 57.78
Rank: 9
101 - 300
HPI: 56.82
Rank: 10
300 - 300
HPI: 55.13
Rank: 11
300 - 300
HPI: 55.01
Rank: 12