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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.

Dhritarashtra said: Sanjaya, gathered on the field of dharma, the field of the Kurus, eager to fight, what did my sons and the sons of Pandu do?

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.