Sanjaya 1198454 224136091 2008-07-07T13:59:26Z 2T 876217 {{IndicText}} {{otheruses}} {{unreferenced|date=January 2008}} '''Sanjaya''' ([[Sanskrit]]: संजय, ''sanjaya'') is a character from the ancient Indian epic ''[[Mahābhārata]]''. In this story of warring families, the father of the principals of the [[Kaurava]] side is the [[blindness|blind]] [[monarch|king]] [[Dhritarashtra]]. His advisor and hence also his [[chariot]]eer Sanjaya (who has the gift of seeing events at a distance granted by the rishi [[Vyasa]]) narrates to Dhritarshtra the action in the climactic battle of [[Kurukshetra]], which includes the [[Bhagavad Gita]]. He had the unpleasant duty of breaking the news of the death of Dhritarashtra's hundred sons at the hands of [[Bhima]] at different points of time in the battle and offers the sorrowing king solace in his darkest hours. Sanjaya is known to be brutally frank in his recital of the day's battle events and his own opinions, (which usually would predict the utter destruction of the Kauravas at the hands of [[Arjuna]] and [[Krishna]]). In the Bhagavad Gita, passages often start with the [[Sanskrit]] words "Sanjaya uvaacha:" ("Sanjaya said:"). The entire [[Bhagavad Gita]] (translates as ''The Song of God'' or ''God's song'') is a recital of Sanjaya to [[Dhritarashtra]] of the conversation between [[Krishna]] and [[Arjuna]]. {{-}} {{Mahābhārata}} {{HinduMythology}} [[Category:Characters in the Mahābhārata]] [[id:Sanjaya (Mahabharata)]] [[su:Sanjaya (wayang)]] [[sv:Sanjaya]] [[th:สัญชัยสารถี]]