A great battle is happening in the field of Kuru between the sons of Dhritarashtra and the sons of Pandu. It also seems as though the reason the battle is happening is because Drupada is intent on revenge. Only, why does Drupada want revenge? What did Dhritarashtra's sons do?
I also understand that apparently Dhritarashtra is dead and up in the upper world. Why else would his son Duryodhana be King and whoever Sanjaya is be narrating the battle?
When I head the line, "Dupada, your sworn foe on his great chariot," I came to the conclusion that this must be taking place in perhaps Greece, because people only used chariots in certain generations. I suppose this is why all of the people's names are so difficult, because the names are in Greek.
I at first thought the story was mainly about Dhritarashtra because it started out with him asking Sanjaya about his sons, but the story seemed to have switched to Arjuna who was on the other side of the battle field with Pandu's sons. I wasn't too upset about this though because Arjuna's opinions about the battle interested me. He didn't want to fight. He didn't want to take revenge. He referred to everyone as his family, even the men on the other side of the field who apparently are his family. He called Dhritarashtra's sons his cousins in the line, " Honor forbids us to kill our cousins, Dhritarashtra's sons." It was rather brave of Arjuna to lay down his bow and arrows.
All that still arose my mind to the question, "Why are the two Kings battling against each other?"
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