Bhagavad Gita · Mahabharata Codex
Kurukshetra
कुरुक्षेत्र · kurukṣetra
'The field of Kuru': a plain north of Delhi, sacred long before the war because King Kuru practised austerities there. The Gita's first line calls it the field of dharma. Eighteen armies met on it and fought for eighteen days.