Skip to main content- Is the Mahabharata Real?What history and archaeology can and cannot say about the Mahabharata: the Painted Grey Ware sites, Dwarka, the Aihole inscription and the dating debate.7 sections · 9 min
- Who Wrote the Mahabharata?The Mahabharata is attributed to Vyasa, who is also a character in it: how the epic grew from Jaya to a hundred thousand verses, and how it was fixed.7 sections · 9 min
- Mahabharata and Ramayana ComparedHow the Mahabharata and the Ramayana differ in author, length, age, geography and moral temper - and which of the two Sanskrit epics to read first.6 sections · 8 min
- The Kurukshetra WarThe eighteen-day war of the Mahabharata: why it started, the armies and commanders, the deaths day by day, the night raid and what was left afterwards.6 sections · 10 min
- The Mahabharata Family TreeThe Kuru family tree of the Mahabharata explained in order: Bharata, Kuru, Shantanu, Bhishma, Vyasa, the Pandavas, the Kauravas, Karna and Parikshit.8 sections · 9 min
- How to Read the MahabharataWhich Mahabharata translation to choose, where to start, how long the epic takes to read, and what a first-time reader can safely skip.7 sections · 9 min