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RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Maya

600 BC - 600 BC

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Maya (; Devanagari: माया, IAST: māyā), also known as Mahāmāyā and Māyādevī, was the queen of Shakya and the birth mother of Gautama Buddha, the sage on whose teachings Buddhism was founded. She was the wife of Śuddhodana, the king of the Shakya kingdom. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maya has received more than 723,744 page views. Her biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Maya is the 373rd most popular religious figure (up from 397th in 2019), the 4th most popular biography from Nepal (down from 3rd in 2019) and the most popular Nepalese Religious Figure.

Maya is most famous for being the Hindu goddess of illusion.

Memorability Metrics

  • 720k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 69.19

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.44

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.62

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Maya ranks 373 out of 2,238. Before her are Pope Vitalian, Saint Apollonia, Pope Zosimus, Mahavira, Saint Nino, and Meritaten. After her are Pope Hormisdas, Pope Victor III, Pope Simplicius, Pope Anastasius I, Faustina Kowalska, and Al-Mansur.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 600 BC, Maya ranks 13. Before her are Servius Tullius, Ānanda, Belshazzar, Cambyses I, Pheidippides, and Hippasus. After her are Alexander I of Macedon, Yaśodharā, Polycrates, Mardonius, Chilon of Sparta, and Bias of Priene. Among people deceased in 600 BC, Maya ranks 8. Before her are Daniel, Tomyris, Draco, Belshazzar, Habakkuk, and Astyages. After her are Epimenides, Theano, Anacharsis, Phalaris, Ibycus, and Cleisthenes of Sicyon.

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In Nepal

Among people born in Nepal, Maya ranks 4 out of 55. Before her are Gautama Buddha (-566), Tenzing Norgay (1914), and Sita (null). After her are Rāhula (-534), Yaśodharā (-600), Śuddhodana (-590), Mahapajapati Gotami (-600), Janaka (null), Chandra Bahadur Dangi (1939), Gyanendra of Nepal (1947), and Prithvi Narayan Shah (1723).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Nepal

Among religious figures born in Nepal, Maya ranks 1. After her are Rāhula (-534), Mahapajapati Gotami (-600), Janaka (null), Anuruddha (-450), and Khagendra Thapa Magar (1992).

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