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धर्मक्षेत्रे कुरुक्षेत्रे समवेता युयुत्सवः ।

मामकाः पाण्डवाश्चैव किमकुर्वत सञ्जय ॥

1.1

Transliteratie

dharmakṣetre kurukṣetre samavetā yuyutsavaḥ |

māmakāḥ pāṇḍavāścaiva kimakurvata sañjaya ||

Door Sanskrit System · Machineconcept · @indic-transliteration/sanscript 1.3.3

Vertaling

Dhritarashtra said What did my people and the sons of Pandu do when they had assembled together eager for battle on the holy plain of Kurukshetra, O Sanjaya.

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Woord voor woord

on the field of dharma
at Kurukshetra
assembled
eager to fight

my sons
the sons of Pandu
and
indeed
what
did they do
O Sanjaya

Door Sanskrit System · Machineconcept · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08

Uitleg

The Gita opens not with Krishna or Arjuna but with the blind king Dhritarashtra, father of the Kauravas, asking his minister Sanjaya what is happening on the battlefield. Sanjaya has been granted the power to see distant events, so the whole dialogue reaches us as his report. The field is called both Kurukshetra and dharmakṣetra, the field of dharma, a phrase that frames the war as a moral testing ground. The king's words my sons and the sons of Pandu already divide the family into two camps, showing where his attachment lies.