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Śalya

शल्य hi சல்லியன் ta

Character from Indian epic Mahabharata

A life on the record,
dated by its sources.

Roles, not beliefs

Overview

From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.

Family

The family of Śalya

Parents, spouses and children as the records give them.

Documented family only. A teacher, a successor or a patron is never drawn in this tree.

As documented
The family as a list · 1

Family 1

What this means

A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.

Does not imply a shared religious affiliation

Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

Texts

In the texts

Works this figure appears in. A work’s date is the source’s, not this figure’s.

Sources

Sources and evidence

Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.

2 statements on this record

  • 2 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.

Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.

Three layers, three licences

Data
Wikidata · CC0 1.0
Text
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
Pictures
Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms lead image of the English Wikipedia article

Review

Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.

Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.

Saileshpat · CC BY-SA 4.0

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