A living atlas of the Kuru house: vows, bloodlines, teachers, rivalries, hidden births, and the war where almost every bond becomes a question.
The Mahabharata rarely gives us clean heroes and villains. It gives us people trapped inside vows, love, debt, shame, pride, and timing.
Filter by house, then open a card for the story. The relationship graph below keeps the same names alive as a constellation.
A compact route through the epic: inheritance, dice, exile, diplomacy, war, grief, instruction, departure.
Click a node to isolate only direct relationships. The rest dims away so the selected character's real epic orbit becomes visible.
Starter references for this prototype. We should later decide exactly which edition and tradition this atlas follows.
Public-domain English translation of the eighteen parvas by Kisari Mohan Ganguli.
sacred-texts.com/hin/maha OverviewSynopsis, structure, parvas, textual history, and major narrative frame.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahabharata ReferenceCross-check for major names, affiliations, and family connections.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_characters_in_the_Mahabharata ReferenceFive brothers, divine births, marriages, exile, and war arc.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandava ReferenceDhritarashtra and Gandhari's sons, Duryodhana's claim, and the Kuru succession split.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaurava ReferenceKunti's hidden son, fostered by Adhiratha and Radha, bound by friendship to Duryodhana.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karna ReferencePanchala princess, wife of the Pandavas, and moral center of the dice-hall crisis.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draupadi ReferenceKrishna's counsel to Arjuna on the battlefield of Kurukshetra.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhagavad_Gita ReferenceShantanu and Ganga's son, bearer of the terrible vow, and elder of both sides.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhishma ReferenceTeacher of the princes, father of Ashwatthama, and commander in the war.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drona