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RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Mahapajapati Gotami

600 BC - Today

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Mahāpajāpatī Gotamī (Pali; Sanskrit: महाप्रजापती गौतमी, Mahāprajāpatī Gautamī) or Pajapati was the foster-mother, step-mother and maternal aunt (mother's sister) of the Buddha. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mahapajapati Gotami has received more than 350,348 page views. Her biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Mahapajapati Gotami is the 697th most popular religious figure (up from 711th in 2019), the 8th most popular biography from Nepal (down from 7th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Nepalese Religious Figure.

Mahapajapati Gotami is most famous for being the first woman to become ordained in Buddhism.

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  • 350k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 63.46

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.50

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.72

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Mahapajapati Gotami ranks 697 out of 2,238. Before her are Angelo Sodano, Saint Remigius, Ludmila of Bohemia, Gertrude the Great, Hashim ibn Abd Manaf, and Sa'id bin Zayd. After her are Julia of Corsica, Empress Meishō, John Harvard, Silas, Martin de Porres, and Mahākāśyapa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 600 BC, Mahapajapati Gotami ranks 26. Before her are Lucius Junius Brutus, Hippias, Thespis, Theano, Gaius Marcius Coriolanus, and Cleomenes I. After her are Ibycus, Datis, Lars Porsena, Demaratus, Neriglissar, and Horatius Cocles.

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In Nepal

Among people born in Nepal, Mahapajapati Gotami ranks 8 out of 55. Before her are Tenzing Norgay (1914), Sita (null), Maya (-600), Rāhula (-534), Yaśodharā (-600), and Śuddhodana (-590). After her are Janaka (null), Chandra Bahadur Dangi (1939), Gyanendra of Nepal (1947), Prithvi Narayan Shah (1723), Birendra of Nepal (1945), and Bidhya Devi Bhandari (1961).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Nepal

Among religious figures born in Nepal, Mahapajapati Gotami ranks 3. Before her are Maya (-600) and Rāhula (-534). After her are Janaka (null), Anuruddha (-450), and Khagendra Thapa Magar (1992).

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