Mahabharata Book Six (Volume 1)

Bhishma, the sixth book of the eighteen-book epic The Mahabhrata, narrates the first ten days of the great war between the Kuravas and the Pndavas. This first volume covers four days from the beginning of the great battle and includes the famous Bhgavadgita (The Song of the Lord), presented here within its original epic context. In this bible of Indian civilization the charioteer Krishna empowers his disciple rjuna to resolve his personal dilemma: whether to follow his righteous duty as a warrior and slay his opponent relatives in the just battle, or to abstain from fighting and renounce the warrior code to which he is born.