<Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> <P> The Kurukshetra War, also called the Mahabharata War, is a war described in the Indian epic Mahabharata . The conflict arose from a dynastic succession struggle between two groups of cousins, the Kauravas and Pandavas, for the throne of Hastinapura in an Indian kingdom called Kuru . It involved a number of ancient kingdoms participating as allies of the rival groups . </P> <P> The location of the battle is described as having occurred in Kurukshetra in north India . Despite only referring to these eighteen days, the war narrative forms more than a quarter of the book, suggesting its relative importance within the epic, which overall spans decades of the warring families . The narrative describes individual battles and deaths of various heroes of both sides, military formations, war diplomacy, meetings and discussions among the characters, and the weapons used . The chapters (parvas) dealing with the war (from chapter six to ten) are considered amongst the oldest in the entire Mahabharata . </P> <P> The historicity of the war remains subject to scholarly discussions . Attempts have been made to assign a historical date to the Kurukshetra War . Suggested dates range from 5561 to around 950 BCE, while popular tradition holds that the war marks the transition to Kaliyuga and thus dates it to 3102 BCE . </P>

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