YugaTree is a free, family-run site that maps the families of the great epics: who was whose child, who married whom, who cursed whom, and how the stories connect.
What it covers
Thirteen family trees: the Mahabharata, the Ramayana, Kashyapa's descendants, the ten avatars, Shiva's family, the Yadavas, the Devi Mahatmya, Kalidasa's Raghuvamsha, the Telugu Palnadu epic, the Tamil Silappatikaram, and the Greek, Norse and Persian epics for comparison.
Story readers, the eighteen days of Kurukshetra, curses and boons, divine weapons, Rama's journey on a map, quizzes, a daily riddle and a tool to draw your own family tree.
Everything in English, Telugu, Hindi and Tamil.
How claims are sourced
Each person and relationship is linked to its source: Vyasa's Mahabharata, Valmiki's Ramayana, the Puranas, or the named text for each epic. Marks show how sure we are:
✓ checked against the critical edition or a standard translation
○ cited from a secondary source, still to be checked against the text
⚠ folk tradition: widely told, but not in the classical text
Where versions disagree, we say so rather than pick one silently.
Who it is for
Anyone curious about the epics: readers meeting them for the first time, families and teachers sharing them with children, and people who grew up with the stories and want to see how everyone fits together.
Spotted a mistake?
Corrections make the site better. Use Suggest a correction on any person, or the contact page.