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Kalhana
Kalhana
Kalhana (c. 12th century) (Sanskrit: कल्हण, romanized: kalhaṇa) was the author of Rajatarangini (River of Kings), an account of the history of Kashmir. He wrote the work in Sanskrit between 1148 and 1149. All information regarding his life has to be deduced from his own writing, a major scholar of which is Mark Aurel Stein. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kalhana has received more than 399,574 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Kalhana is the 3,798th most popular writer (up from 3,825th in 2019).
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400k
Page Views (PV)
57.53
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
22
Languages Editions (L)
3.29
Effective Languages (L*)
2.88
Coefficient of Variation (CV)
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