Are the People of the Mahābhārata Real? Data, code and protocol for a pre-registered record-linkage test against the Vedic corpus

Epic-side dataset of 107 Mahābhārata persons coded from the epic's genealogies, scripts that parse every person record in the Vedic Index of Names and Subjects (Macdonell & Keith 1912) and score identifications with Fellegi–Sunter record linkage on Mykytiuk's identifying marks, the pre-registration protocol with all amendments, battle-test outputs, both hand reviews, and the paper. Third-party texts are downloaded by fetch_sources.sh and are not redistributed. Paper 1 of the series Itihāsa Through Data.