Wikipedia Trail from Mahabharata to Kurukshetra War

     The Article I began with was the Mahabharata. I chose this article because I wanted a broad overview of this new epic we are reading. It helped me to understand the basic premise of the epic and its characters. I then went to an article about Vyasa, this helped me to understand that this is a main character and the narrator of this epic. I also learned that he is thought to be a decedent of the god Vishnu. I then went to an article about Pandava, where I learned that these are the five sons of Pandu who all share a wife. They are important to the story because they are the cousins to the mother main characters. These two sets of cousins fought a war against each other which is the last article I read. The Kurukshetra War, was fought between these two sets of cousins because they all wanted the throne for the kingdom of Kuru.

(Kurukshetra War: Image from Wikipedia)