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	Kurukshetra war - Information at Halfvalue.com
		Kurukshetra, literally land of the Kurus, was the battleground on which this war, known as the Kurukshetra War, was fought.
		The dispute degraded into a full scale war when Duryodhana, the eldest of the Kauravas, driven by jealousy, refused to restore the Pandavas to their throne even after the exile.
		The war left an extremely large number of widows and orphans and led to an economic depression and beginning of Kali Yuga.
	www.halfvalue.com /wiki.jsp?topic=Kurukshetra_war (4426 words)

	Kurukshetra War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kurukshetra, literally land of the Kurus, was the battleground on which this war, known as the Kurukshetra War, was fought.
		This war was perhaps the bloodiest war in history as most of the warriors and soldiers perished during the brief period of only eighteen days.
		The war left an extremely large number of widows and orphans and led to an economic depression and beginning of Kali Yuga.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kurukshetra_war (3995 words)

	Krishna.com - Kurukshetra (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kurukshetra, about one hundred miles north of New Delhi, is best known as the place where the great battle of the Mahabharata was fought and Lord Krishna spoke the Bhagavad-gita.
		The war was therefore unavoidable, and the Kauravas and Pandavas decided to fight at Kurukshetra, because it was large, uninhabited, and abundant with water and fuel-wood.
		Kurukshetra is known as Samanta Pancaka ("five lakes") because here Lord Parashurama, an incarnation of Lord Krishna, made five lakes from the blood of kshatriyas he killed.
	www.krishna.com /printarticles/travel/Kurukshetra.html (2032 words)

	Mahabharata
		If this war never happened, if Kurukshetra was only symbolic of the body, mind and senses; why would this Aryan king have spent twenty years of his ruling time in the North cooking for someone else.
		At that time, war meant that during every evening they had theater, they had dance, they had jokers, etc. They had all varieties of entertainment, and none of these entertainers were killed.
		But the war was still running, and they would not want to be involved in politics, so to protect themselves they will begin, "Long, long ago..." And that would begin the dramatization of the Great War.
	www.veda.harekrsna.cz /encyclopedia/warhistory.htm (4517 words)

	Kurukshetra district, Haryana Online - India - Mahabharat - Gita - Vedas
		Kurukshetra along with Karnal and Kaithal districts is known as the 'Rice Bowl of India' and famous for Basmati Rice.
		Kurukshetra is intimately related to the Aryan civilization and its growth along the Saraswati river.
		Kurukshetra is one of the very few places visited by all the Sikh Gurus and Gurdwaras have been erected to commemorate their visit, the most prominent among them being the Gurdwara Patshahi dedicated to the sixth Guru Hargobind.
	haryana-online.com /Districts/Kurukshetra.htm (620 words)

	Biography of Characters from Mahabharata
		A story is told in the Skanda Purâna that Bhîma became a little proud after the war, considering that it was by his own power that he had achieved success in the war.
		Kritavarma survived the war, but was later killed at Prabhasa during a fratricidal quarrel among the Yadus.
		Although he belonged to the suta caste (a class of sûdra generally employed as a charioteer), he was a spiritually advanced disciple of Vyâsadeva, who gave him the power to see the events during the Kurukshetra war.
	www.angindia.com /angika_biography_mahabharata.html (3493 words)

	The Great Bharata War
		Secondly, he felt that the dating of the Mahabharata war could not be done merely on the basis of astronomy alone.
		This date of Mahabharata War is crucial in determing the chronologies in the ancient history of Bharat since many epigraphs and inscriptions with a historical import, refer to time-reckoning based on the starting date of Kaliyuga which is close to the date of the Mahabharata War.
		The consensus was that the determination of the dates of the war should be based on establishing the consistency of ALL the astronomical references contained in the text to make it a useful reference date for chronologies in ancient bharatiya itihaasa.
	www.indicethos.org /Astronomy/GreatBharatawar.html (6867 words)

	Kurukshetra,Essays on the Gita, Sri Aurobindo
		Life a battle and a field of death, this is Kurukshetra; God the Terrible, this is the vision that Arjuna sees on that field of massacre.
		War is the king of all; and the saying, like most of the apophthegms of the Greek thinker, suggests a profound truth.
		War and destruction are not only a universal principle of our life here in its purely material aspects, but also of our mental and moral existence.
	www.searchforlight.org /Gita/Kurukshetra.htm (1726 words)

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		The battle between the Pandavas and the Kauravas was fought on the plains of Kurukshetra.
		Kurukshetra is a district of the now Northern Indian State of Haryana.
		According to the vedas, the name Kurukshetra refers to a area of about 48 x 128 Km which now includes a large number of holy places, temples and tanks connected with the Ancient traditions, Mahabharat War, and the ancestors of Kauravas and Pandavs.
	www.dharmakshetra.com /literature/kurukshetra.htm (662 words)

	Nilesh Nathwani's Blog : The Story of the War of Kurukshetra, Nilesh Nathwani blogs on sulekha, Religion blogs, Nilesh ...
		Vyas, the creator of the epic poem describing this war in Mahabharata, was the grandfather of the princes who fought the war of Kurukshetra (Kuru- kshetra means the field of the Kuru).
		The war of Kurukshetra despite many futile attempts by wise men, ruling kings and Lord Krishna himself could not be averted.
		The text of the Gita is in the form of a dialogue between the incarnation of Vishnu, Krishna and the spiritual hero-seeker Arjuna as narrated by Sanjay to the old sightless king Dhritarashtra.
	nilesh-nathwani.sulekha.com /blog/post/2002/11/the-story-of-the-war-of-kurukshetra.htm (3429 words)

	Islam Watch - "Z Naik's Claim of Jihad in Bhagwad Gita" by Aman Garg
		Krishna also tells Arjuna that if he dies in the battle, he will go heaven and if he wins, he will enjoy the power on earth and this is exactly what Allah told to the Muslims during their battle against mushriks.
		War for justice is common sense, whereas war for God and his apostle is superstition.What happened to the jews belonging to Bani Quraytha?
		Dr Zakir Naik says that the battle of Kurukshetra and the battle of Mecca were 'Battles of truth'.
	www.islam-watch.org /RebuttingIslam/ZNJihadInGita.htm (1486 words)

	Kurukshetra - The land of Holy Gita
		Kurukshetra is a great pilgrimage for millions of Hindus from all over the country who visit the land of Kurukshetra, the venue of the Mahabharata war and the birth place of the Bhagvad Gita, for its holy places.
		Kurukshetra town lies in the North Eastern part of Haryana State and is about 160 Kilometers North of Delhi, 39 Kilometers North of Karnal and 40 Kilometers South of Ambala.
		Kurukshetra being the place of great historic and religious importance has been developed as a big tourist centre, where a number of visitors come daily.
	kurukshetra.nic.in /tourist/tourism.htm (1316 words)

	The Great War
		That war stands for conflicts of different types, on different planes of being, but all rooted in the archetypal war between good and evil, the higher and the lower, the spiritual and the material in human nature.
		War breeds sorrow, despair, hate, envy; these are seed-causes which ripen, in another epoch, in further bloodshed and misery.
		If we wish war to cease, we must realize that our duty today is to train young boys and girls to control their feelings, thoughts and actions, lest they tend to breed war in the future.
	www.teosofia.com /Mumbai/7204war.html (1530 words)

	Reviews from The Horizons - Art, Culture and Lifestyles from India
		It was the exploration of Draupadi's psyche during the Kurukshetra war, a war fought to avenge her humiliation.
		A war looked at from a woman's perspective, particularly a mother's, shows how futile all that bloodshed is. The narration and the enactment of this tale were gripping.
		Has this war invaded our genes?" and when her sons are killed, "No sorrow is greater than losing one's son.
	www.thehorizons.com /review/rev70.htm (559 words)

	Krishna Archeology
		Later, according to the Matsya and Vayu Puranas, a heavy flood on the River Ganga destroyed Hastinapura, and Nichakshu, the fifth king after Parikshit (Arjuna's grandson) who ascended the throne after the Kurukshetra war, shifted his capital to Kausambi, 50 kilometres from Allahabad.
		Kurukshetra, now in Haryana, was the site of the Kuru war.
		Panini, Patanjali and the Buddhist and Jain works also mention Krishna and the events of the Kurukshetra war, while the Chinese traveller Yuan Chang records that a great war was fought at Kurukshetra and the bones of dead warriors lay buried under the soil.
	www.veda.harekrsna.cz /encyclopedia/krishna-archeology.htm (1304 words)

	Mahabharat war occurred in 1478 BC: Scientist
		This claim disputes the earlier known dates of the event, which is believed to have occurred in the Dwapara Yuga between 3100 and 3000 BC based on historical and archeological evidence.
		This result may have an error band of one year, since the intervals between the three constraining eclipses are uncertain to the extent of one year," Professor R Narayana Iyengar (Department of Civil Engineering, IISc) told PTI in Bangalore on Monday.
		The date of Mahabharatha war, according to you, is 1478 BC.
	www.rediff.com /news/2003/oct/28mahabharat.htm (527 words)

	Dch1 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The causes of the family feud and the consequent war lie in the events which occurred couple of generations earlier and expose the fickleness as well as the greatness of man. It goes to show how apparently normal events can have a far reaching consequences.
		Thus the Mahabharata war is called a Dharmayuddha or a war fought according to the rules of Dharma or a code of conduct.
		Before the war was to start, Arjuna asked Shri Krishna, his charioteer to take the chariot to the centre between the armies in order to have a look at the warriors gathered there, because it was necessary to know with whom he was going to fight.
	www.hinduweb.org /home/dharma_and_philosophy/vshirvaikar/Dnyaneshwari/MBWAR.html (4196 words)

	OurKarnataka.Com : Bhagavad Gita
		Kurukshetra, which is also Dharmakshetra, the field of righteousness, where the battle between good and evil is about to take place.
		In the poem the dialogue is between Krishna and Arjuna, and reported by Sanjaya to the blind Kaurava king Dhritarashtra.
		1.23 I shall scan the well-wishers in this war of evil-minded Duryodhana, whoever have assembled on his side and are ready for the battle.
	www.ourkarnataka.com /religion/gita/gita.htm (1576 words)

	Geeta Updesha : The Philosophy of living (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The hundred sons of Dhritarastra and the five sons of Pandu, fought a fatricidal war in the battlefied of Kurukshetra.This is the main theme of the mahabharata.
		In the battlefield of Kurukshetra, Kauravas fought under the leadership of Duryodhana and the Pandavas side was led by the the eldest among the Pandavas, Yudhisthir.
		On the twentieth day of the war, the great warrior Bhishma was felled from his chariot by Arjuna and had been lying on a bed of arrows.
	www.aryabhatt.com /geeta (1516 words)

	Sri Ramakrishna Math : The Vedanta Kesari, Culture and Military Ethics (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The essentiality of the ancient and medieval concepts of military ethics was its perception of war as a contest exclusively between combatants in which non-combatants were not concerned or affected.
		In this aspect the code of the Pandavas and Kauravas at Kurukshetra is indeed almost indistinguishable from the rules of chivalry of the Knights of the Round Table, who in turn evolved the intricate rules which bound the European knighthood of the Middle Ages.
		The Cold War gave a massive impetus to the further development of nuclear weapons, whose creators sought to retain their exclusive monopoly in the field under the guise of promoting non-proliferation.
	www.sriramakrishnamath.org /magazine/vk/2001/12-7-1.asp (2965 words)

	Kurukshetra
		Many geographical names and personalities connected with Kurukshetra occur in the earliest Sanskrit literature and around this region were enacted the opening scenes of the drama of Indian history.
		Kurukshetra shot into prominence as the battle field of Mahabharta and as the birth place of the holy Gita.
		A flourishing country of the Kurus, it was the most sacred region of the Dvapara age according to the Matsya Purana and one of the sixteen Mahajanapadas of Jambudvipa.
	kurukshetra.nic.in /history/history.htm (495 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Main News
		The Haryana Governor and Chancellor of Kurukshetra University, Dr A.R. Kidwai, confers the degree of Doctor of Science (honoris causa) on Mr E. Sreedharan, Managing Director, Delhi Metro Rail Corporation, at the golden jubilee function of the university at Kurukshetra on Wednesday.
		The Haryana Governor and Chancellor of Kurukshetra University, Dr A.R. Kidwai, confers the degree of Doctor of Literature (honoris causa) on Mr H.K. Dua, Editor-in-Chief, The Tribune Group of Publications, at the golden jubilee function of the university at Kurukshetra on Wednesday.
		Kurukshetra University began its golden jubilee celebrations today with honouring two illustrious sons of the country — Mr E. Sreedharan, Managing Director of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation, and Mr H.K. Dua, Editor-in-Chief of The Tribune Group of Publications.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2006/20060112/main8.htm (856 words)

	eKantipur.com - Nepal's No.1 News Portal
		But if a real war breaks out like in the Mahabharata, the king might lose not only his throne but also the whole family as King Dhritarashtra lost all his 100 sons in the Kurukshetra battlefield.
		The political dispute between the king and the political parties does not actually compare with the Kurukshetra war that was fought with weaponry.
		Does the Kurukshetra war compare with the Maoist insurgency that is going on with the use of modern weaponry for 10 years imponderably longer than the 18-day fight between the Pandavas and Kauravas?
	www.kantipuronline.com /kolnews.php?&nid=50916 (888 words)

	Ananda in India
		In a deeper sense, the war of Kurukshetra is the unending struggle in the mind between good and evil.
		The war of Kurukshetra, which is to begin on the morrow, will pit high principles against proud ambition, and soul-aspiration against qualities in human nature that keep the ego in bondage to delusion.
		The war of Kurukshetra describes the soul's final struggle to become liberated from the clutches of maya, or delusion.
	www.anandaindia.org /gita/excerpt_chapter3.html (1307 words)

	Kurukshetra - Indopedia, the Indological knowledgebase
		Kurukshetra is a district in the modern state of Haryana, India.
		In the Mahabharata, which is part of Indian mythology, Kurukshetra, literally Land of the Kurus, was the battleground on which a war, also known as the Kurukshetra war, was fought between two clans of the Kuru dynasty.
		After the exile, the eldest of the Kaurava brothers, Duryodhana, refused to return the kingdom to the Pandavas.
	www.indopedia.org /Kurukshetra.html (742 words)

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