The Mahabharata, Drawn as a Family Map

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The project organizes the epic as a navigable relationship system rather than a flat character encyclopedia. Its interface supports name search, family-branch browsing, and two-name pathfinding, while separate guided pages address episodes such as Bhishma’s vow, Karna’s parentage, the dice game, and Abhimanyu’s entry into the chakravyuha. The homepage states that the dataset contains 751 named characters across 18 kulas and 1,174 bonds, and divides the war chronology across its eighteen days.