RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Kashyapa

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Kashyapa (Sanskrit: कश्यप, IAST: Kaśyapa) is a revered Vedic sage of Hinduism. He is one of the Saptarishis, the seven ancient sages of the Rigveda. Kashyapa is the most ancient and venerated rishi, along with the other Saptarishis, listed in the colophon verse in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad.Kashyapa is an ancient name, referring to many different personalities in the ancient Hindu and Buddhist texts. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kashyapa has received more than 2,420,877 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Kashyapa is the 1,133rd most popular religious figure (up from 1,176th in 2019).

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.19

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 41

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.22

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.47

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Kashyapas by language

Over the past year Kashyapa has had the most page views in the with 462,747 views, followed by Hindi (82,123), and Bengali (27,579). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Ukrainian (378.01%), (61.86%), and Alemannic (54.39%)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Kashyapa ranks 1,133 out of 3,187. Before him are Antipope Christopher, Babylas of Antioch, Daniel the Stylite, Joseph Zen, Shoghi Effendi, and John Fisher. After him are Fermin, Filaret, Edith Cavell, Saleh Al-Fawzan, Luis Ladaria Ferrer, and Xenia of Saint Petersburg.

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