RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Mahavatar Babaji

1900 - Today

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Mahavatar Babaji (IAST: Mahāvatāra Bābājī; lit. 'Great Avatar (Revered) Father') is the Himalayan yogi and guru who taught Kriya Yoga to Lahiri Mahasaya (1828–1895). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mahavatar Babaji has received more than 3,007,584 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Mahavatar Babaji is the 731st most popular religious figure (down from 642nd in 2019), the 100th most popular biography from India (down from 75th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Indian Religious Figure.

Mahavatar Babaji is most famous for being the guru of Paramahansa Yogananda.

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  • 3.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 68.60

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.46

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.45

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Mahavatar Babaji ranks 731 out of 3,187. Before him are Melania the Younger, Pope Adrian IV, Pope Leo VIII, Saint Eligius, Maron, and Antipope Anacletus II. After him are Patriarch Nikon of Moscow, Sun Myung Moon, Frances of Rome, Therese Neumann, Martin Bucer, and Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Mahavatar Babaji ranks 37. Before him are Arno Breker, Karl Wolff, Pak Hon-yong, Prince Aimone, Duke of Aosta, Chiune Sugihara, and Walther Wenck. After him are Ragnar Granit, Julien Green, Gladwyn Jebb, Anna Seghers, W. Edwards Deming, and Thomas Wolfe.

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In India

Among people born in India, Mahavatar Babaji ranks 100 out of 1,861. Before him are Ronald Ross (1857), Cliff Richard (1940), Ram Nath Kovind (1945), Prithviraj Chauhan (1159), Mohammed Nadir Shah (1883), and Ravi Shankar (1920). After him are Sarojini Naidu (1879), Basava (1134), Nizam-ul-Mulk, Asaf Jah I (1671), Kasturba Gandhi (1869), Kim Philby (1912), and Syed Ahmad Khan (1817).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In India

Among religious figures born in India, Mahavatar Babaji ranks 10. Before him are Radha (null), Guru Gobind Singh (1666), Mahākāśyapa (-550), Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (1486), Maudgalyayana (-568), and Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835). After him are Ravi Shankar (1956), Mata Amritanandamayi (1953), Sai Baba of Shirdi (1835), Dayananda Saraswati (1824), Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1918), and Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi (1856).

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