RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Mahavira

599 BC - 527 BC

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Mahavira (Devanagari: महावीर, Mahāvīra), also known as Vardhamana (Devanagari: वर्धमान, Vardhamāna), was the 24th Tirthankara (Supreme Preacher) of Jainism. He was the spiritual successor of the 23rd Tirthankara Parshvanatha. Mahavira was born in the early 6th century BCE to a royal Kshatriya Jain family of ancient India. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mahavira has received more than 5,276,341 page views. His biography is available in 77 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 74 in 2019). Mahavira is the 134th most popular religious figure (up from 365th in 2019), the 16th most popular biography from India (up from 35th in 2019) and the most popular Indian Religious Figure.

Mahavira is most famous for being the founder of Jainism. He was a prince who renounced his throne and became a monk.

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  • 79.08

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  • 77

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  • 8.45

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.82

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Mahavira ranks 134 out of 3,187. Before him are Hassan-i Sabbah, Pope Pius VIII, Pope Formosus, Margaret the Virgin, Saint Dominic, and Pope Clement VIII. After him are Pope Pius VI, Pope Clement V, Pope Leo XI, Anselm of Canterbury, Pope Clement I, and Moses in Islam.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 599 BC, Mahavira ranks 1.  Among people deceased in 527 BC, Mahavira ranks 1. After him is Peisistratos.

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    Mahavira

    RELIGIOUS FIGURE

    599 BC - 527 BC

    HPI: 79.08

    Rank: 1

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Others Deceased in 527 BC

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    Mahavira

    RELIGIOUS FIGURE

    599 BC - 527 BC

    HPI: 79.08

    Rank: 1

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    Peisistratos

    POLITICIAN

    600 BC - 527 BC

    HPI: 77.87

    Rank: 2

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In India

Among people born in India, Mahavira ranks 16 out of 1,861. Before him are B. R. Ambedkar (1891), Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887), Ramakrishna (1836), Vivien Leigh (1913), Nagarjuna (150), and Shivaji (1627). After him are Shah Rukh Khan (1965), Indira Gandhi (1917), Rudyard Kipling (1865), Ānanda (-600), Chandragupta Maurya (-340), and Swami Vivekananda (1863).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In India

Among religious figures born in India, Mahavira ranks 1. After him are Ānanda (-600), Sathya Sai Baba (1926), Radha (null), Guru Gobind Singh (1666), Mahākāśyapa (-550), Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (1486), Maudgalyayana (-568), Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835), Mahavatar Babaji (1900), Ravi Shankar (1956), and Mata Amritanandamayi (1953).

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