# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vishakhadatta
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:32:51.163Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vishakhadatta"
name: "Vishakhadatta"
slug: "vishakhadatta"
description: "Viśākhadatta was an Indian Sanskrit poet and playwright. Although Vishakhadatta furnishes the names of his father and grandfather as Maharaja Bhaskaradatta and Maharaja Vateshvaradatta in his political drama Mudrārākṣasa, we know little else about him. Only two of his plays, the Mudrārākṣasa and the Devichandraguptam are known to us. His period is not certain but he probably flourished in or after the 6th century CE. Some scholars such as A. S. Altekar, K. P. Jayaswal and Sten Konow theorized that Vishakhadatta was a contemporary of Chandragupta II, and lived in late 4th century to early 5th century. But this view has been challenged by other scholars, including Moriz Winternitz and R. C. Majumdar."
tagline: "Indian Sanskrit poet and playwright"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           45.14
  momentum:             10
  historical:           9.477934666666668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "विशाखदत्त"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump