Sanjaya
तं तथा कृपयाऽविष्टमश्रुपूर्णाकुलेक्षणम् । विषीदन्तमिदं वाक्यमुवाच मधुसूदनः ॥
taṃ tathā kṛpayā'viṣṭamaśrupūrṇākulekṣaṇam | viṣīdantamidaṃ vākyamuvāca madhusūdanaḥ ||
To him, overcome with compassion, his eyes filled with tears and troubled, sunk in despair, Madhusudana spoke these words.
Explanation Sanjaya is describing to King Dhritarashtra how Arjuna looked at the end of chapter 1: he put down his bow, overwhelmed by pity (kṛpā) and grief at the thought of fighting his own relatives. Madhusudana, "slayer of the demon Madhu," is a name for Krishna, who now begins to speak. Krishna's teaching starts in the next verse, with a rebuke of Arjuna's dejection.
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About the Bhagavad Gita
The Bhagavad Gita, in Sanskrit श्रीमद्भगवद्गीता (Śrīmad Bhagavad Gītā ), “the song of the Lord”, is a dialogue of 18 chapters and 700 verses from the Bhishma Parva of the Mahabharata. On the battlefield of Kurukshetra, as the war is about to begin, the warrior Arjuna loses heart at the thought of fighting his own kin, and his charioteer Krishna answers him: on duty, on acting without attachment to the results, on knowledge, meditation and devotion. Sanjaya recounts the conversation to the blind king Dhritarashtra. The name is also written Bhagwad Gita, Bhagvad Gita, Bhagavat Gita or Bhagavad Geeta; with the honorific, Shrimad Bhagavad Gita, Srimad Bhagavad Gita or Shrimad Bhagwat Geeta; and often simply the Gita or Geeta.
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