Brahma Vanshavali -- The Complete Hindu Family Tree

When you read the Mahabharata or the Ramayana for the first time, the cast feels infinite. Hundreds of named warriors. Dozens of rishis. Devas and asuras whose names blur after the first chapter. Most readers give up trying to keep track and just follow the lead characters. The result is a perpetual feeling of catching only fragments of a story too large to hold.

The Vanshavali tree fixes that. It is the master genealogy of Hindu civilisation, drawn directly from the Vishnu Purana, the Bhagavata Purana, and the Mahabharata's Adi Parva. Two hundred and nine named beings. Ten generations. One single ancestor at the root -- Brahma, sitting on the lotus that grew from Vishnu's navel.

Every character you have heard of is in this tree. Krishna is here, with his grandfather Yadu and his great-great-grandson Vajra. Rama is here, with his ancestor Ikshvaku and his sons Lava and Kusha. Ravana is here, in the Pulastya branch with his half-brother Kubera. The Pandavas are here, with Vyasa as their biological great-grandfather. Hiranyakashipu, Prahlada, and Bali are here, sharing a father with Indra by way of two sister-wives. The Sanatkumaras are here, eternally five years old. Even your gotra is here, traced back to one of the seven or eight founding rishis whose names you say in every Sankalp.

The tree below is the visualisation that ships inside the Eternal Raga app. Tap any node to expand its descendants. Pinch or scroll to zoom. Drag to pan. Switch between English and Hindi labels using the language toggle. When you find yourself in an unfamiliar branch, follow the parent connections back to the root. You will reach Brahma in fewer than ten taps every single time.