Bhagavad-gita Chapter 1, Verse 2: The Invocation
(+sandhi) सञ्जय उवाच ।
(-sandhi) सञ्जयः उवाच ।
(translit) sañjayaḥ uvāca ।
(tr/eswo) Sanjaya spoke:
(tr/engl) Sanjaya spoke:
The first verse of the Gita contains a question posed by Dhritarashtra, addressed to Sanjaya. This verse may be thought of as divided into three parts: the description of the battlefield, the description of the opponents, and the posing of the question itself.
Bhagavad-gita Chapter 1, Verse 1: All Study Parts
A Bhagavad-gita Reader for Students of Sanskrit, Chapter 1, Verse 1 (धर्मक्षेत्रे कुरुक्षेत्रे समवेता . . . , dharmakṣetre kurukṣetre samavetāḥ . . .) contains the following parts or components that the student might want to study:
1. Verse Text: The Verse Text with a Sanskrit-English Vocabulary
2. Verse Grammar: Syntax and Sentence Construction of the Verse
3. Word Study: dhṛtarāṣṭraḥ
4. Word Study: dharmakṣetre kurukṣetre
Summary: This word study focuses on the two words dharmakṣetre and kurukṣetre, and examines them as Sanskrit compounds. This word study also contains a discussion of the religious importance of the ancient Indian place called Kurukshetra, north of today’s Delhi.
Bhagavad-gita Chapter 1, Verse 1: The Invocation
(+sandhi) धृतराष्ट्र उवाच ।
(-sandhi) धृतराष्ट्रः उवाच ।
(translit) dhṛtarāṣṭraḥ uvāca ।
(tr/eswo) Dhritarashtra spoke:
(tr/engl) Dhritarashtra spoke:
Summary: This word study focuses on the word dhṛtarāṣṭraḥ, and examines it not only in a linguistic context (i.e. analyzing it as a Sanskrit compound), but also deals with the historical person Dhritarashtra, who is the speaker of the first verse of the Bhagavad-gita.
A Bhagavad-gita Reader 