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Two groups of cousin-brothers, they wanted to fight to settle up. Formerly the war was declared—the leader of the war, if he is killed, then the other party is victorious. Not that unnecessarily killing the civil citizens. No. This was nonsense. If there was fight between two kings, the citizens, they were unaffected, not that there is fight now between two parties, there is immediately siren.
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[[Vanisource:720414 - Lecture at Town Hall - Auckland|720414 - Lecture at Town Hall - Auckland]]
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Prabhupāda: Kurukṣetra is from the Vedic age. Millions of years, from time immemorial, it is a dharma-kṣetra. And still it is there. There is a station, railway station, called Kurukshetra near Delhi, about hundred miles away from Delhi. So these are facts. Why there should be interpretation? These are facts. Why there should be . . . it is clear. Dharma-kṣetra is . . . Kurukṣetra is dharma-kṣetra, and historical fact is māmakāḥ pāṇḍavāś caiva, yuyutsavaḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 1.1 (1972)|BG 1.1]]).

Two groups of cousin-brothers, they wanted to fight to settle up. Formerly the war was declared—the leader of the war, if he is killed, then the other party is victorious. Not that unnecessarily killing the civil citizens. No. This was nonsense. If there was fight between two kings, the citizens, they were unaffected, not that there is fight now between two parties, there is immediately siren, (imitates siren) kaw, kaw, kaw, kaw, now bomb and the civil . . . the most uncivilized way of war.

In those days—those days means at least five thousand years ago—they selected a place and, "Let us fight and decide our fate," kṣatriyas. Why the public should suffer? So in this way Kurukṣetra was selected to fight between the two parties. And still it is existing. It is a great field. And dharma-kṣetre . . . just try to understand that there is no need of our imperfect comments on the Bhagavad-gītā. That is my point. So dharma-kṣetre kuru-kṣetre samavetā yuyutsavaḥ. Yuyutsavaḥ. This yuyutsavaḥ word is now used in Japanese language also. That artificial fight, what is called? Yuyutsavaḥ?

Śyāmasundara: Jujitsu.
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