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Aśvaghoṣa, an Uncommon card
Aśvaghoṣa, also transliterated Ashvaghosha, was a Buddhist philosopher, dramatist, poet, musician, and orator from India.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 62
- DEF
- 45
- Power
- 107
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 22,000
Power 107 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
Aśvaghoṣa quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Aśvaghoṣa card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He was born in Saketa, today known as ______.
Answer
Ayodhya. He was born in Saketa, today known as Ayodhya. From the Aśvaghoṣa article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Large-panel-system building. Large-panel-system building 28,000 · Aśvaghoṣa 22,000 · Urban Zakapa 11,000 · Idiotape 7,400 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He was born in Saketa, today known as Ayodhya.
- He is believed to have been the first Sanskrit dramatist, and is considered the greatest Indian poet prior to Kālidāsa.
- It seems probable that he was the contemporary and spiritual adviser of Kanishka in the first century of our era.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Aśvaghoṣa article was read about 22,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 62 and blocks with 45: each hit it takes is cut by 18 %.
How to get Aśvaghoṣa
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Aśvaghoṣa (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
