Kurukshetra War
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The Kurukshetra War, also called the Mahabharata War, is a war described in the Hindu epic poem Mahabharata, arising from a dynastic struggle between two groups of cousins, the Kauravas and the Pandavas, for the throne of Hastinapura. The war is used as the context for the dialogues of the Bhagavad Gita, which was interpolated into the Ramayana.
c. 1700 watercolour from Mewar depicts the Pandava and Kaurava armies arrayed against each other.
Modern bronze sculpture of Chariot with Krishna and Arjuna during the Kurukshetra War.
Krishna Pleads with Dhritarashtra to Avoid War
Krishna, and Arjuna on the chariot, 18th-19th century painting
Mahabharata
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The Mahābhārata is one of the two major Smriti texts and Sanskrit epics of ancient India revered in Hinduism, the other being the Rāmāyaṇa. It narrates the events and aftermath of the Kurukshetra War, a war of succession between two groups of princely cousins, the Kauravas and the Pāṇḍavas.
Manuscript illustration of the Battle of Kurukshetra
Krishna and Arjuna at Kurukshetra, 18th–19th-century painting
Modern depiction of Vyasa narrating the Mahābhārata to Ganesha at the Murudeshwara temple, Karnataka.
Sauti recites the slokas of the Mahabharata.