Kurukshetra (కురుక్షేత్రం)
Today: Kurukshetra, Haryana
Kurukshetra is called dharma-kshetra - the field of dharma - and it is the most famous battlefield in all our stories. Here, in the quiet moment before the fighting began, Arjuna's bow slipped from his hands, and Krishna spoke the Bhagavad Gita to him - words about duty, courage, and the soul that people still read every single day. Then came eighteen days of war that decided the fate of the whole world.
What happened here
- The Bhagavad Gita: Krishna speaks the Bhagavad Gita
- The Battle of Kurukshetra: The eighteen-day war begins
- The Fall of Bhishma: Bhishma falls onto a bed of arrows
- The Death of Abhimanyu: Young Abhimanyu enters the wheel formation alone
- The Fall of Drona: Guru Drona falls
- The Death of Karna: Karna's chariot wheel sinks into the earth
- The End of War: The war ends on the eighteenth day
- Gandhari's Curse: Gandhari grieves on the silent field and curses Krishna