About this telling

mahabharata.online is a reading companion from EthicsLab Limited, edited by Jesal Chauhan. It is not a full-text archive and not a moral commentary. The older name of the book is Jaya — kept here as a whisper, not the product name.

The work is an interactive Mahabharata relationship reference: 751 named figures, 18 houses, 1,174 bonds, seven guided stories, and an 18-day war spine. Plot follows the Kisari Mohan Ganguli translation (1883–1896). Voice is invocatory.

Purpose

Readers arrive with a name, a pair, or a day. The site should answer who a person is, how two people tie, and why a house went to war — then open the map if they want to walk further.

How it is made

The graph is compiled by hand from the genealogies and war books, then generated into a versioned dataset. Puranic and Harivamsha material is used only where the epic names a line but not every stepping-stone. Foster and niyoga parents are both recorded. See sources and methodology.

Transliteration

Names follow common English Mahabharata spellings (Krishna, Draupadi, Duryodhana) with aliases for spoken forms (Devrat, Panchali, Radheya). Mahabharata and Mahabharat are both used in prose where a reader might search either.

Corrections

If a relationship is wrong, a variant is missing, or a page should be clearer, write to jesal@ethicslablimited.biz with the person names, the edition you are looking at, and the parva or section if you have it. Substantive fixes are dated on the page. Product help is on the support page.

Changelog

• 2026.09 — first public SEO cohort: real URLs for characters, houses, stories, the war spine, sources, and this page. Attribution to Jesal Chauhan and EthicsLab Limited; privacy and support pages.