# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sayana
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:27:28.924Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sayana"
name: "Sayana"
slug: "sayana"
description: "Sayana was a 14th-century Sanskrit Mimamsa scholar from the Vijayanagara Empire of peninsular India, near modern day Bellary, Karnataka. An influential commentator on the Vedas, he flourished under King Bukka Raya I and his successor Harihara II. More than a hundred works are attributed to him, among which are commentaries on nearly all parts of the Vedas. He also wrote on a number of subjects like medicine, morality, music and grammar."
tagline: "14th century Indian philosopher"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1400"
deathDate: "1387"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.05
  momentum:             0.4258241758241759
  historical:           13.427324
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "সায়ণ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayana"
    title: "Sayana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sāyaṇa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saiana"
    title: "Saiana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A2yana"
    title: "Sâyana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%A3"
    title: "सायण"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sāyaṇa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sajana"
    title: "Sajana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayanacharya"
    title: "Sayanacharya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayana"
    title: "Sayana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D1%8F%D0%BD%D0%B0"
    title: "Саяна"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "सायणः"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%A3%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%9A%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%AF"
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    title: "Саяна"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "ساین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump