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Kālidāsa

400 - 420

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Kālidāsa (4th–5th century CE) was a Classical Sanskrit author who is often considered ancient India's greatest poet and playwright. His plays and poetry are primarily based on Hindu Puranas and philosophy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kālidāsa has received more than 2,149,901 page views. His biography is available in 133 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 126 in 2019). Kālidāsa is the 252nd most popular writer (down from 141st in 2019), the 25th most popular biography from India (down from 17th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Indian Writer.

Kālidāsa is most famous for his epic poem, the "Kālidāsa's Kumarasambhava," which tells the story of the birth of the god Kumara.

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  • 2.1M

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  • 71.21

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  • 133

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.94

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.95

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Mālavikāgnimitra
1840
Meghadūta
1813
Śakuntalā; The Fatal Ring
1789
R̥tusaṃhāra
1900
Vikramorvaśī
1833
Raghuvaṃśa
The Dattilam is a remarkable treatise from the earliest known period of organised, systematic writing on music in India. The work can be placed in the same period as the Natyasastra and it presents to us a well develped sastra composed at the end of a long tradition of analytic thinking on music.
1832

Page views of Kālidāsas by language

Over the past year Kālidāsa has had the most page views in the with 301,194 views, followed by Bengali (58,085), and Malayalam (31,426). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are (1,268.75%), (852.50%), and Chechen (273.72%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Kālidāsa ranks 252 out of 7,302. Before him are J. M. G. Le Clézio, Paula Hitler, Germaine de Staël, Valmiki, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, and Peter Handke. After him are Nelly Sachs, François Mauriac, Anna Akhmatova, Shota Rustaveli, Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, and Geoffrey Chaucer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 400, Kālidāsa ranks 2. Before him is Pope Celestine I. After him are Saint Ursula, Merovech, Pope Zosimus, Olybrius, Vasubandhu, Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus, Alexius of Rome, Ermanaric, Aspar, and Yazdegerd I. Among people deceased in 420, Kālidāsa ranks 2. Before him is Jerome. After him are Orosius, Pelagius, Sulpicius Severus, Eunapius, Porphyry of Gaza, Jeonji of Baekje, Shapur IV, and Castinus.

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In India

Among people born in India, Kālidāsa ranks 25 out of 1,861. Before him are Rudyard Kipling (1865), Ānanda (-600), Chandragupta Maurya (-340), Swami Vivekananda (1863), Subhas Chandra Bose (1897), and Valmiki (-80). After him are Aryabhata (476), Sariputta (-568), Salman Rushdie (1947), Jahangir (1569), Adi Shankara (788), and Aishwarya Rai (1973).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Kālidāsa ranks 5. Before him are George Orwell (1903), Rabindranath Tagore (1861), Rudyard Kipling (1865), and Valmiki (-80). After him are Salman Rushdie (1947), Tulsidas (1532), Ghalib (1797), Savitribai Phule (1831), Meera (1498), Premchand (1880), and William Makepeace Thackeray (1811).

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