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Bimbisara

558 BC - 491 BC

Bimbisara

Bimbisāra (in Buddhist tradition) or རྒྱལ་པོ་གཟུགས་ཅན་སྙིང་པོ་ (Tibetan) or Shrenika (Śreṇika) and Seniya (Seṇiya) in the Jain histories (c. 558 – c. 491 BCE or c. 472 – c. 405 BCE) was the King of Magadha (r. 543 – 492 BCE or r. 457 – 405 BCE) and belonged to the Haryanka dynasty. He was the son of Bhattiya. His expansion of the kingdom, especially his annexation of the kingdom of Anga to the east, is considered to have laid the foundations for the later expansion of the Mauryan Empire.According to Jain Tradition, he is said to be the first Tirthankara (will be named as Padmanabha / Mahapadma) out of 24th Tirthankara of the future cosmic age. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bimbisara has received more than 1,663,906 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia. Bimbisara is the 3,259th most popular politician (down from 1,594th in 2019).

Bimbisara is most famous for being the first Buddhist king of Magadha.

Memorability Metrics

1.7M
Page Views (PV)
62.46
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
40
Languages Editions (L)
3.27
Effective Languages (L*)
4.54
Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Bimbisaras by language

Over the past year Bimbisara has had the most page views in the English wikipedia edition with 313,054 views, followed by Hindi (88,057), and Thai (43,458). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Basque (44.04%), Ukrainian (41.75%), and Hungarian (41.05%)