Dear Adriano et al, 

For upākhyānas and other secondary narratives embedded in the MBH, the best source I know is the doctoral dissertation of Barbara Gombach (Columbia, 2000) titled “Ancillary Stories in the Sanskrit Mahābhārata” and I see that it has been made available on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/AncillaryStoriesInTheSanskritMahabharataBarbaraGombach

For a cursory list of what he calls “subtales” in the two epics, see Alf Hiltebeitel’s “Not without Subtales: Telling Laws and Truths in the Sanskrit Epics,” JIPhil 33 (2005): 455-511, and available through springer here: 
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10781-005-7050-9.pdf

With best wishes,
Adheesh



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On Mar 28, 2018, at 08.26, Adriano Aprigliano via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:

Dear colleagues,

are you aware of a detailed story/episode index to the Mahābhārata (and the Rāmāyaṇa, for that matter)?

Best wishes
Adriano


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