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Show HN: Ithihāsas – a character explorer for Hindu epics, built in a few hours (ithihasas.in)
FrancisGerard 6 minutes ago [-]
Very cool! I like how cool it is to see the graph, but at the current density it’s a bit hard to read.

I’ve been working on a similar project for biblical texts. For example, here’s a character detail page for David: https://hypr.bible/en/entities/person/david/

I’m finding that character dictionaries like this are useful to people who want to engage with ancient texts but are not very familiar with them, but even if one is familiar, they are still quite helpful.

ashtavakra 19 minutes ago [-]
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)
cvrajeesh 16 minutes ago [-]
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