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WRITER

Vidyapati

1352 - 1448

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Vidyapati (c. 1352 – 1448), also known by the sobriquet Maithil Kavi Kokil (the poet cuckoo of Maithili), was a Maithili and Sanskrit polymath-poet-saint, playwright, composer, biographer, philosopher, law-theorist, writer, courtier and royal priest. He was a devotee of Shiva, but also wrote love songs and devotional Vaishnava songs. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vidyapati has received more than 377,566 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Vidyapati is the 1,086th most popular writer (up from 1,387th in 2019), the 128th most popular biography from India (up from 138th in 2019) and the 24th most popular Indian Writer.

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  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.15

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  • 2.85

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Vidyapati ranks 1,086 out of 5,755Before him are Roberto Bolaño, Nora Roberts, Rosamunde Pilcher, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, and Patrick White. After him are Joost van den Vondel, Radegund, Henri Michaux, Allan Pinkerton, Mimnermus, and Jean Giraudoux.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1352, Vidyapati ranks 3Before him are Vytautas and Rupert, King of Germany. After him are Edigu, Viridis Visconti, and Siemowit IV, Duke of Masovia. Among people deceased in 1448, Vidyapati ranks 3Before him are John VIII Palaiologos and Christopher of Bavaria. After him are Theodore II Palaiologos, Carlo II Tocco, and Vasily Kosoy.

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In India

Among people born in India, Vidyapati ranks 128 out of 1,493Before him are Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (1883), Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1918), Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899), Abdul Qadeer Khan (1936), Buddhaghosa (401), and Mangal Pandey (1827). After him are Guru Tegh Bahadur (1621), Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak (1551), Dayananda Saraswati (1824), Prithviraj Chauhan (1159), Anthony de Mello (1931), and Mamnoon Hussain (1940).

Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Vidyapati ranks 24Before him are Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (1838), Ahmed Deedat (1918), Namdev (1270), Bāṇabhaṭṭa (601), Bharata Muni (-1000), and Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899). After him are Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak (1551), Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (1820), B. K. S. Iyengar (1918), Mahadevi Varma (1907), Subramania Bharati (1882), and Anna Leonowens (1831).