# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/katyayana-q44277
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:27:01.915Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/katyayana-q44277"
name: "Katyayana"
slug: "katyayana-q44277"
description: "Kātyāyana or Mahākātyāyana was a disciple of Gautama Buddha. He is listed as one of the ten principal disciples and was foremost in expanding on and explaining brief statements of the Buddha."
tagline: "Figure mentioned in Early Buddhist texts; leading disciple of Gautama Buddha"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bodh_Gaya_-_Buddha_Statue_-_Mahakaccana_(9227735220).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           51.53
  momentum:             10.87624015502744
  historical:           14.071604
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "迦旃延"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ཀ་ཏྱའི་བུ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Kātyāyana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "카트야야나"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "မဟာကစ္စည်းထေရ်"
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    title: "Катьяяна"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "พระมหากัจจายนะ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Katyayana (budist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ca-chi%C3%AAn-di%C3%AAn"
    title: "Ca-chiên-diên"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44277"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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