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Good attempt. What were the sources for these graphs? Orginals? Valmiki Ramayanam and Vyasa Mahabharata? Looking at Mahabharata's relationship graph on the website - it feels like it is incomplete. There are probably ~400 to 500 active named characters in Mahabharata (among several thousands of named characters overall)

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That’s a fair point, and you’re right.

Right now the data isn’t directly modeled from primary sources like the Valmiki Ramayana or the Mahabharata. It’s an MVP built quickly using curated summaries, so the graph is definitely incomplete.

Planning to expand coverage and move towards a more accurate, source-grounded knowledge graph over time.

Can you do comparative textual analysis between original sources and popular retellings? Or highlight it better across different versions.

E.g. Laxman Rekha incident is not present in Valmiki Ramayana but is present in societal consciousness.

I wonder how using wikidata as a source would work. I haven't checked but I assume these characters would be realtively comprehensively covered.

And where did the stats come from? I find it very amusing & interesting & informative. I'm assuming you had the LLM generate these? That would be so interesting to see the prompts for!!

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