Sanjaya
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- This article is about the character from the Mahabharata epic; For the article about the Javanese Dynasty of the same name, please see Sanjaya Dynasty.
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Sanjaya (Sanskrit: संजय, sanjaya) is a character from the Hindu epic Mahabharata.
In this story of warring families, the father of the Kaurava side is the blind king Dhritarashtra. His charioteer Sanjaya (who has the gift of seeing events at a distance granted by the rishi Vyasa) narrates to Dhritarashtra 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 uvaaca:" ("Sanjaya said:").
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