Study of the Bhagavadgita : Chapter-2 : Post- 7. - Swami Krishnananda.
---------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, September 21, 2020. 6:55. PM. Chapter 2: The Background of the Bhagavadgita-7. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Right from the beginning of childhood there was a feud between the Kauravas and the Pandavas. The Kauravas constituted the children of Dhritarashtra; the Pandavas were these five brothers. Right from early childhood there was animosity on the part of the Kauravas, especially Duryodhana, in respect of the Pandavas. They tried their best to see that the Pandavas were annihilated. They poisoned them, tried to burn their house, drove them out, and many such things were done. Somehow or other, the Pandavas did not die; they survived. The Pandavas married Draupadi, the daughter of King Draupada, and it was at this time that the Kauravas learned that the Pandavas had not died. Though Duryodhana had hatched a plan to burn them alive in their house made of a combustible ma...