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A fact from Asaga appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 26 August 2009 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Asaga's Vardhaman Charitra (Life of Vardhaman), written in 853 CE, was the first Sanskrit language biography of Jain Tirthankara, Mahavir?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2009/August.

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My article here is about a historic kannada poet called Asaga of Ninth century. All facts are placed are placed in the article. it is absolutely unfair to delete this article

Csn_61 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Csn 61 (talk • contribs) 14:02, 17 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This article on Wiki mentions him further and two references are notes (books though): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashtrakuta_literature#cite_note-dig-12 (specifically note 13 and 14).