Copyright 2010-11 devb.com, jotiz.com. All Rights Reserved. Introduction Written scriptures of Mahabharata (Sanskrit: महाभारत ) firstappeared in Sanskrit between 540 and 300 BCE narrating an epic that must haveoccurred a 1000 years or more before. Mahabharata has manifold tales, thecentral theme is about the legends of the Bharatas (a Vedic Aryan group).Bhagavad-Gita (Sanskrit: भगवद्गीता) is part of “BhismaParva” chapter of the epic.Bhagavad-Gita is a rich, philosophical treatise. It is composed of 700 verseswhich are strictly a dialog between Krishna and Arjuna at a battlefield. Manyof the English and other language translations tend towards author-bias.Whether the reader is inclined to think this is all but an allegory orsomething that really happened a few thousands of years before is leftentirely to the reader’s discretion.What happened and what was practiced in the vedic-aryan era is beyond all religions as they exist today. Some of that may even defy our imaginations.The best way to approach such a document is to disambiguate this scripture from any religion. In my opinion the Kuru-kshetra war was a holocaust –of millions of deaths; followed by a long period of economic depression. After nearly a thousand years, as the void became refilled with newer andmore modern civilizations, that we begin to see re-emergence of faith and religious beliefs.