Bāṇabhaṭṭa

585–650

Asthana Kavi in the court of King Harsha and pioneer of complex ornate Sanskrit prose style.

writer · poet · biographer

Contemporaries

People who walked the earth at the same time as Bāṇabhaṭṭa:

Muhammad (571–632)
Umar ibn Al-Khattāb (586–644)
Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib (599–661)
Abu Bakr (573–634)
Brahmagupta (598–670)
Gregory I (540–604)
Uthman ibn Affan (574–656)
Aisha (614–678)

See everyone who was alive in 590 · 600 · 610 · 620 · 630 · 640 · 650.