# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bhatta-narayana
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:31:35.686Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bhatta-narayana"
name: "Bhatta Narayana"
slug: "bhatta-narayana"
description: "Bhaṭṭa Nārāyaṇa Mṛgarājalakṣmana, also known as Nishānārāyana, was a Sanskrit scholar and writer who belonged to the Pancharatra Rarhi branch of Sandilya family of Kanyakubja Brahmins. He is believed to have been summoned from Kanyakubja (Kannauj) to Bengal by King Ādisūra, who ruled after the Pala dynasty came to power in the middle of the eleventh century."
tagline: "Renowned dramatist who dramatized specific episodes from the Mahabharata epic."
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "8"
deathDate: "9"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.01
  momentum:             10
  historical:           4.20468
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Bhaṭṭanārāyaṇa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "भट्टनारायण"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ਭੱਟ ਨਾਰਾਇਣ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AD%E0%A4%9F%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9F%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%A3%E0%A4%83"
    title: "भट्टनारायणः"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%A4_%E0%AE%A8%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%AF%E0%AE%A3%E0%AE%BE"
    title: "பக்த நாராயணா"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12443344"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump