# Kurukshetra, field of the Mahabharata war
**कुरुक्षेत्र, महाभारत युद्धभूमि**

- Canonical page: https://indianepics.online/event/kurukshetra/
- Chapter: [Itihasa and Purana](https://indianepics.online/chapter/itihasa.md)
- Track: tradition (Itihasa-Purana; told time, not a calendar date)
- When: End of the Dvapara Yuga (Mahabharata) (Dvapara Yuga)
- Where: Kurukshetra, Haryana (29.97, 76.88)
- Tags: war, religion

## Summary

The eighteen-day war between the Pandavas and Kauravas, and the setting of the Bhagavad Gita.

पांडवों और कौरवों का अठारह दिन का युद्ध, और भगवद्गीता की भूमि।

## Account

The Mahabharata's war is fought on the plain of Kurukshetra, about 160 km north of Delhi, and the Bhagavad Gita is set on the field before the first day's fighting.

Painted Grey Ware settlements of roughly 1200 to 600 BCE cluster in the same Kuru country, and B. B. Lal found the ware at sites the epic names, Hastinapura among them. That is as close as archaeology comes to the story: it shows the region was settled in the right era, not that the war took place.

## Sources

- Mahabharata, Bhishma Parva (Critical edition, BORI Pune)
- Painted Grey Ware sites of the Kuru region (B. B. Lal, Ancient India 10-11 (1954-55))

## Image

Brahma Sarovar. Ratnadeep Chaskar, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ABrahma_Sarovar.JPG

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