Sanjaya
एवमुक्त्वा हृषीकेशं गुडाकेशः परन्तप । न योत्स्य इति गोविन्दमुक्त्वा तूष्णीं बभूव ह ॥
evamuktvā hṛṣīkeśaṃ guḍākeśaḥ parantapa | na yotsya iti govindamuktvā tūṣṇīṃ babhūva ha ||
Having spoken thus to Hrishikesha, O scorcher of foes, Gudakesha said to Govinda, "I will not fight," and then fell silent.
Explanation Sanjaya is describing to King Dhritarashtra how Arjuna, overwhelmed by grief at having to fight his own teachers and kin, refuses to take part in the war. "Parantapa" (scorcher of foes) here addresses Dhritarashtra, and "Gudakesha" (conqueror of sleep or 'thick-haired') is a name for Arjuna. His silence sets up Krishna's reply, which Sanjaya introduces in the next verse.
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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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