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The Mahabharata recounts the lives and deeds of several generations of a ruling dynasty known as the Kuru clan. Central to the epic is a dynastic conflict between two branches of this family--the five Pandava brothers and their cousins, the hundred Kauravas--over the throne of Hastinapura. The climactic battle takes place at Kurukshetra, literally the "field of the Kurus", also called Dharmakshetra ("field of dharma"). According to the text, the site was

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